What is recorded here

Tawstock Castle is a country house near Barnstaple that began as a fortified medieval residence and became a fashionable Georgian home. The Wrey baronets and later owners kept rebuilding it, adding pointed arches, tall windows and gardens while leaving the old defensive bones intact. The castle still stands above the Taw valley, marked on the public map as a castle because it carries both meanings: a home made grand and a fortress made comfortable.

Tawstock Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of North Devon. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Tawstock Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Tawstock family, a local landholding family in Devon. It is remembered as a medieval stronghold associated with the Hundred Years' War, as it was held by the French for a time during the conflict.

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