The extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified 15th-century manor house, are a testament to the rise and fall of a prominent Norfolk family, the Heydons. Over 200 years, successive generations of this ambitious family built, then enlarged, and finally abandoned this castle. Sir John Heydon probably built the strong inner gatehouse during […]
Mileham Castle
Mileham Castle is a medieval motte and bailey castle. It is almost unique in its construction : the keep (substantial parts of the masonry of which survive) was built first, with the motte then built around it. Topographical variation across the site also gives rise to a diverse flora, including patches of chalk grassland and […]
Weeting Castle
The remains of the 12th century hall house known as Weeting Castle, together with buried remains relating to earlier occupation of the site during the 10th or 11th century and a post medieval ice house. The moated site is sub-rectangular in plan and has maximum overall dimensions of circa 105 metres north-south by circa 79 […]
Thetford Castle
Thetford Castle Hill is an enormous mound, partly sunk into a deep surrounding ditch, and two sets of ramparts. The hill, or mound, is a Norman motte earthwork. It is the highest Norman motte in England, though no trace remains of the castle which once surmounted it. There were two motte and bailey castles, made […]
Wormegay Castle
A motte and bailey castle in Wormegay village. The motte is visible as a large, sub-circular earthen mound 5 metres high and measuring about 77 metres north-south by 62 metres east-west at the base, surrounded on the north, west and south sides by a ditch 12-15 metres wide which remains open to a depth of […]