What is recorded here

Buckton Castle is a ringwork and 17th century beacon site 350m north east of Castle Farm in Tameside. It is a scheduled monument. The earthworks and beacon mark a place where warning fire may have answered danger across the valley. Whether people still walk that ridge or watch the horizon from it is no longer certain.

The National Heritage List for England records Buckton Castle: a ringwork and site of 17th century beacon 350m north east of Castle Farm 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.

Buckton Castle was likely built in the late 11th or 12th century, possibly by a local Norman lord, and later served as a defensive site and 17th-century beacon. It is important as a scheduled monument reflecting medieval military architecture and local defense strategies in England.

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