What is recorded here

Peel Hill motte and bailey castle, Thorne, stands as a scheduled monument in Doncaster, England, marked only by a point on an official list rather than a clear boundary. The hill may have worn a wooden keep, a ditch and a guard tower before grass swallowed them, yet no surviving wall or room is named. Any person who climbed it, watched the road or lived inside the lost wood would have done so without leaving a dated chamber behind. The list preserves the shape of the claim, not the life that filled it.

The National Heritage List for England records Peel Hill motte and bailey castle, Thorne. 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.

Peel Hill motte and bailey castle was built in the late 11th or early 12th century, likely by a local Norman lord following the Norman Conquest. It is remembered as an example of the strategic defensive structures established to consolidate Norman control over the region.

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