What is recorded here

Mowbray Castle east of Kirkby Malzeard is a scheduled motte and bailey in North Yorkshire. Its earthworks still mark the place even though its buildings are gone. The name suggests a Mowbray presence, yet no surviving chamber or courtyard remains for that claim. What is left is a shape in the land, waiting to be read rather than entered.

The National Heritage List for England records Motte and bailey castle, known as Mowbray Castle, east of Kirkby Malzeard 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.

Built by the de Mowbray family in the late 11th or early 12th century, Mowbray Castle is remembered as a key defensive and administrative site in the medieval landscape of northern England. It reflects the expansion of Norman influence in the region following the Norman Conquest.

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