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Radnor Castle motte

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Radnor Castle motte
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A named place photographed at this map point in Powys.
Built by the Normans in the late 11th or early 12th century, Radnor Castle motte was part of the military and administrative network established to control the Welsh Marches. It is remembered as a key site in the early medieval consolidation of English authority in mid-Wales.

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