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Mountfitchet Castle Bailey

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Mountfitchet Castle Bailey
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Mountfitchet Castle Bailey is a castle, fort or tower in Uttlesford, England. Perhaps stones still hold the shape of hands that built them. Maybe the bailey decked itself in ivy after people stopped visiting. Imagine a guard posting watch at dawn, certain the land needed protecting.
A named place photographed at this map point in Uttlesford.
Built by William de Fitchet in the 11th or 12th century, Mountfitchet Castle Bailey is remembered as a key Norman stronghold and the site of the last battle of the Anarchy in 1147.

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Photo: Richard Croft · CC BY-SA 2.0