What is recorded here

Cothill Tump is a motte castle 500m north west of Cothill Farm in Herefordshire, England, listed as a scheduled monument. The mound may have risen as a local warning or a small military strong point. Whether it watched a road, a field or a valley is no longer certain. The shape still marks the choice made by the people who built it.

The National Heritage List for England records Cothill Tump, a motte castle 500m north west of Cothill Farm as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Cothill Tump is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, likely built in the 11th or 12th century, reflecting the military and administrative strategies of the post-Conquest period. It is remembered as an example of early medieval fortification in the English countryside.

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