What is recorded here

Kingsland Castle is a scheduled monument in Herefordshire where an octagonal keep and angle towers still press through the grass on a mound beside the parish church. The royal estate in Leen passed to Philip de Braose under Henry I, who likely raised the fortress in the 1130s before King John wasted those same lands in 1216. Mole tumps in the bailey keep breaking through to expose white plaster and mortar, proving the castle never fully disappeared even when human memory did.

The National Heritage List for England records Kingsland 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.

Kingsland Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Ferrers family, a prominent Norman noble lineage. It is remembered as an important medieval stronghold and is now protected as a scheduled monument due to its historical and archaeological significance.

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