What is recorded here

Motte and bailey castle 600m north of Castle Combe is a scheduled monument in Wiltshire. It preserves a Norman earthwork built after 1066, with a raised mound and a lower court enclosed by banks and ditches. The shape still marks the place as a centre of local defence and manorial control, even though the name of its first lord has faded from memory.

The National Heritage List for England records Motte and bailey castle 600m north of Castle Combe 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 castle is important as a rare example of an early motte and bailey structure in the region, reflecting the strategic military and administrative priorities of the Norman period.

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