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Motte castle 100m north of Wotherton Hall

Scheduled monument

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Motte castle 100m north of Wotherton Hall is a scheduled monument in Shropshire, England. The earthwork still stands a short distance from the hall, preserving the shape of a defended home from a time when local power needed a visible warning. People may have watched roads, hidden in ditches, or simply lived beneath a sky that touched the top of the mound. The castle is not a display building, but a buried chamber of human ambition, waiting for imagination to complete what stone and soil stopped.
The National Heritage List for England records Motte castle 100m north of Wotherton Hall 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, the motte castle near Wotherton Hall was likely constructed by a Norman lord to establish control over the surrounding area following the Norman Conquest. Its scheduling as a monument highlights its importance in illustrating medieval military architecture and land management in rural England.

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