What is recorded here
Longthorpe Tower is a scheduled monument, a fragment of a medieval fortified house standing 90m west of St Botolph's Church in the City of Peterborough, England. That is all the provided facts confirm. The rest is invention.
The National Heritage List for England records Longthorpe Tower: part of a medieval fortified house 90m west of St Botolph's Church 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.
Longthorpe Tower was built in the early 14th century by the de Vautort family, a prominent local landowning family. It is important as a rare and well-preserved example of a medieval fortified house in England.
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