What is recorded here

Moccas Castle in Herefordshire is a ploughed-out oval court with a tiny motte that likely never carried stone walls, though Hugh de Frene faced royal seizure in 1294 for building fortifications without proper licence. The de Frenes held it until 1375, when it passed through marriage to Roger Cricketot, later reached the Vaughan family, and eventually entered Cornewall hands after a widow married a poacher from Moccas Deer Park. What remains is a swampy ditch and scarped mound, but the story is a castle kept by lovers of rules bent, land won through wedding beds, and a lord who may have been a thief first.

Moccas Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of Herefordshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Moccas Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Mohun family, a prominent noble family in the region. It is remembered as a significant medieval stronghold in Herefordshire, reflecting the strategic and feudal importance of the area during the Middle Ages.

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