What is recorded here

Richmont Castle in Bath and North East Somerset preserves medieval walls, water channels and C17 mining scars. The castle controlled local life, the channels directed clean water through stone, and the later mines cut into the hill for minerals. People may have drunk from those channels, watched the castle from a distance or hauled ore through narrow tunnels. What is certain is that the ground still holds layers of human ambition, from noble defence to industrial extraction.

The National Heritage List for England records Richmont Castle: the remains of a medieval castle, parts of its water management system and later C17 mining activity 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.

Richmont Castle was built in the medieval period, with later 17th-century mining activity recorded on the site, though specific builders or holders are not well documented. It is important as a scheduled monument, reflecting both medieval military architecture and historical industrial use.

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