What is recorded here

Castle Hills and The Hillings hold a ringwork castle beside a Saxon vill, a shifted medieval village and a windmill mound. The land has carried human life through several ages, changing shape as people moved, built and adapted. It remains a scheduled monument in Huntingdonshire, preserved because the layers still matter.

The National Heritage List for England records The Hillings, Castle Hills: a ringwork castle associated with a Saxon vill, shifted medieval village and a windmill mound 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.

A ringwork castle at The Hillings, Castle Hills, was likely built in the 11th or 12th century, possibly by a local Norman lord following the conquest of 1066. It is important as part of a complex landscape that includes a Saxon vill and medieval village, illustrating continuity and change in settlement and land use from Roman to medieval times.

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