What is recorded here

Holwell Castle is a Norman motte and bailey in North Devon, built after 1066 to control the South West. Its timber hall is gone, but the earthwork remains: a raised bank, a ditch, and a quiet claim on the land. The castle still stands in soil, not stone, remembering the shape of power before power forgot itself.

The National Heritage List for England records Holwell 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.

Holwell Castle was built in the 12th century by the de Holwell family, a Norman landholding family in the region. It is remembered as an example of early medieval military architecture and for its strategic role in the local defense and feudal structure of the time.

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