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Motte castle adjacent to Oaklands Hall, Chirk Bank is a Norman earthwork fortification located in Shropshire near the Welsh border. The monument consists of a motte, or artificial mound, typical of early Norman military architecture from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Such structures served as defensive strongholds during the period of Norman expansion and consolidation in the Welsh Marches, often functioning as administrative and military centres for local lordship. The earthwork survives as a significant example of early medieval fortification technology, with its physical form preserving evidence of Norman settlement patterns in this strategically important frontier region.
Motte castle adjacent to Oaklands Hall, Chirk Bank is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019299. View the official record →
Motte castle adjacent to Oaklands Hall, Chirk Bank is a Norman earthwork fortification located in Shropshire near the Welsh border. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019299.
Motte castle adjacent to Oaklands Hall, Chirk Bank is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1019299.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Oswestry Castle: motte and adjoining section of the town wall immediately north east of Christ Church (7.2 km), Wat's Dyke: 375m long section immediately south of Middleton Road and west of Laburnum Drive (7.7 km), Wat's Dyke: 365m long section, extending from 45m north east of Gate House on Shrewsbury Road (8.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Motte castle adjacent to Oaklands Hall, Chirk Bank's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Motte castle adjacent to Oaklands Hall, Chirk Bank stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.