What is recorded here

Toot Hill castle rose from low ground beside the Great Eau when Norman earls of Chester controlled Lincolnshire, using its eight-metre mound and wide ditches to mark power before stone castles transformed the countryside. Tothill Manor still occupies the western bailey, proving that the shape guided life long after soldiers left. The earth remembers more than the house because it kept the boundary, entrance and building platform visible through centuries of change.

The National Heritage List for England records Toot Hill motte and bailey castle 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.

Toot Hill motte and bailey castle was built in the 12th century, likely by a Norman lord following the conquest of 1066. It is important as a well-preserved example of early medieval military architecture and as evidence of Norman settlement and control in the region.

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