What is recorded here

Ongar Castle is a motte-and-bailey earthwork in Epping Forest, built around 1086 by Eustace II of Boulogne and later stripped of its stone keep between 1558 and 1579. Its broad mound, wet ditch and kidney-shaped bailey still mark the ground where kings, dukes and brick builders took turns owning the same spot. What is left is not a ruin but a shape: a hill the town forgot how to remember.

The National Heritage List for England records Ongar Castle 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.

Ongar Castle was built by the de Londres family in the 12th century and later held by the powerful De Montfort family. It is important as a well-preserved example of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle and as a site associated with the history of the Hundred Years' War.

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