What is recorded here

Adam de Cockfield, knight of St Edmund, held Lindsey Castle during the time of King Stephen, perhaps the same man whose seven-score-foot wooden tower William of Diss remembered. The mount still rises thirty-six centimetres above the grass, ringed by a ditch deep enough to swallow a man whole, while cattle graze the bailey where nettles and hawthorn strangle the old banks. Thomas de Burgh received licence to fortify the house in 1204, suggesting the castle outlived its first builder and adapted to new blood. The stream that once fed a northern pond has silted into memory, leaving only the shape of water and the shadow of a tower no longer standing.

The National Heritage List for England records Lindsey 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.

Lindsey Castle in Lincolnshire was built by the de Lacy family in the 12th century and later held by the powerful D'Arcy family. It is important as a well-preserved example of a medieval moated manor house and is associated with the history of the D'Arcy Earls of Holderness.

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