What is recorded here

Eardisley Castle was a fortified house recorded in the Domesday Survey, guarding the Welsh border road into Herefordshire. Welsh rebels plundered it in 1262, Roger de Clifford imprisoned a bishop there in 1263, and Baskerville knights rose from its halls. Civil War fire destroyed most of it in 1642, leaving a ruined gatehouse where a poor Baskerville still lived in 1670. Today only a wet moat, oval bank and a fourteen-foot mound remain beside the church, holding the shape of every loss the castle suffered.

The National Heritage List for England records Eardisley Castle 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.

Eardisley Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Eardisley family, a prominent local landholding family in Herefordshire. It is remembered as an example of early medieval military architecture and for its historical association with the region's feudal past.

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