What is recorded here

Hinckley Castle stood as a motte and bailey by the middle of the 12th century, built by Hugh de Grantmesnil, Earl of Leicester. The motte is gone beneath a modern supermarket, but the bailey remains a broad raised disc ringed by a wide ditch, its eastern edge still holding water. What was once a martial stronghold has become a quiet mound in the town centre, preserving the shape of a fortress that time and roadworks dismantled.

The National Heritage List for England records Remains of the motte and bailey castle at Hinckley 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.

Built in the late 11th or early 12th century, likely by a Norman lord following the conquest of 1066, Hinckley's motte and bailey castle was an important regional stronghold in Leicestershire. It is remembered as a key example of early medieval military architecture and as evidence of Norman expansion and control in the area.

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