
What is recorded here
Holdgate Castle is a Norman motte and bailey at Hall Farm in Shropshire, dating to the eleventh or twelfth century. Its earthen mound and ditched defences still stand across five hectares, marking the kind of local stronghold the Conquest scattered through Shropshire. Whatever life moved inside those boundaries has vanished, but the shape of its power remains visible in the ground.
The National Heritage List for England records Holdgate Castle motte and bailey castle and garden remains at Hall 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.
Holdgate Castle was a Norman motte and bailey castle, likely built in the 12th century, and is remembered for its historical significance as a defensive site and for the surviving garden remains that provide insight into medieval landscaping.
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