What is recorded here

Marmaduke caught the first red stripe before the rest of the cage became visible. The stripe ran across the sky like a wound, thin and unblinking. It pointed at the hill where the castle mound still stands east of Sherrington Manor. Sherrington itself appeared later, small and ordinary, as if the sky had first shown the mark and only then remembered the town.

The National Heritage List for England records Sherrington Castle mound: motte castle east of Sherrington Manor 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 12th century, Sherrington Castle mound was likely held by the de Sherrington family, a local landholding dynasty. It is remembered as an example of Norman motte-and-bailey fortification in the English countryside.

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