What is recorded here
Driffield Castle was a Norman motte and bailey fortress founded by Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, and re-fortified in the 13th century. It stands on Moot Hill in Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, where 19th-century quarrying damaged the motte and houses encroached on the bailey. Excavations revealed Roman occupation from the fourth century AD beneath the motte, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle hints at an eighth-century Northumbrian palace at the same spot. The castle and its 2.33-acre site were sold at auction in 2011, leaving only earthworks behind.
Driffield Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of East Riding of Yorkshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Driffield Castle was built in the 12th century by the de Driffield family, a prominent local landholding family in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is remembered as a strategic Norman stronghold and an important administrative centre in the region during the medieval period.
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