What is recorded here

Bury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort and later medieval castle near Selworthy, Somerset. It stands on a steep promontory above the meeting of the River Exe and River Haddeo, with a single rampart, deep ditch and drystone revetments. In the late 1130s a motte and bailey castle was added beside the older defences. The National Trust owns the site and it remains open to the public.

The National Heritage List for England records Bury 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.

Bury Castle was built in the 12th century by the de Burgh family, a prominent Norman lineage. It is important as a well-preserved example of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle and as a key historical site in the development of medieval military architecture in England.

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