What is recorded here

Motte and bailey castle on St Ann's Hill, Midhurst stands as a scheduled monument, marking a hilltop where human hands shaped earth into defensible form long before modern memory. The mound and surrounding ditch may have served lords, soldiers or frightened neighbours during uncertain centuries, their names lost but their labour buried in the grass. St Ann's Hill still rises above Midhurst, carrying that old shape into every storm and sunrise.

The National Heritage List for England records Motte and bailey castle on St Ann's Hill, Midhurst 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 in the late 11th or early 12th century, likely by a Norman lord following the conquest of 1066, the Motte and Bailey castle on St Ann's Hill, Midhurst is remembered as a key defensive and administrative site in the early medieval landscape of southern England. Its scheduling as a monument highlights its archaeological and historical significance.

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