What is recorded here

Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire, England, stands as an eleventh to fourteenth century enclosure castle, marked as a scheduled monument. Its boundary marks a place where human life and history still meet, even when the path is not clear. The castle belongs to the remembered world, not to invention.

The National Heritage List for England records Richmond Castle: eleventh to fourteenth century enclosure 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.

Richmond Castle was built by the Normans in the late 11th century and significantly expanded during the 12th and 13th centuries. It is important as a key example of medieval military architecture and as a symbol of royal authority in northern England, having been held by several important noble families and the Crown.

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