What is recorded here

Motte castle 50m north east of Rochford church is a scheduled monument, yet no human body has measured its berm or touched its soil in living memory. The name implies a ridge of earth built by hands, perhaps for watchfulness, perhaps for pride, but the absence of witness removes it from the world of people. It exists only as a coordinate and a label, dead before it was born.

The National Heritage List for England records Motte castle 50m north east of Rochford 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.

Built in the late 11th or early 12th century, likely by a Norman lord following the conquest of 1066, the motte castle near Rochford church is important as a testament to the military and administrative strategies of the Norman period in England.

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