What is recorded here

Wark Castle in Northumberland is a scheduled monument, a formal recognition that its earthworks and ruins belong to everyone's memory even when nobody owns the act of seeing them. The distinction matters because a name in a list is not an invitation to climb, dig or disturb. Keep the castle intact by leaving it alone.

The National Heritage List for England records Wark Castle motte and bailey castle and artillery fort 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.

Wark Castle motte and bailey was built in the 12th or 13th century, likely by a local Norman lord, and later developed into an artillery fort in the 16th century. It is important as a rare surviving example of both medieval and early modern military architecture in England.

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