What is recorded here

Claxton Castle in South Norfolk is a scheduled monument where a forty-metre wall with five remaining bastions still stands beside faint portcullis grooves and a moated bailey. William de Kerdiston built it in 1333, but later owners kept changing the place around that old bone. A mansion was set at right angles to the castle wall, then Claxton Manor took its porch tower and grew through the 17th and 19th centuries. Even a swimming pool cut into the land once revealed more of the gatehouse, as if the castle kept giving back what it had hidden.

The National Heritage List for England records Claxton 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.

Claxton Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Claxton family, a local landholding family in Norfolk. It is remembered as an example of medieval military architecture and for its historical association with the region's feudal past.

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