What is recorded here

Hugh Lupus built Shotwick Castle around 1093 to guard a tidal ford on the River Dee, using flooded ditches and a hexagonal earthen motte to trap invaders. Kings such as Henry II and Edward I later used it during Welsh campaigns before it decayed into a hunting lodge and ruined park. Today only earthworks remain near Saughall, preserving the shape of a fortress that turned river water into a weapon and then surrendered its stones to time.

Shotwick Castle is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Cheshire West and Chester. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

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