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Oswestry Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortress positioned immediately north east of Christ Church in the market town of Oswestry, Shropshire. The castle was established in the Norman period following the conquest, serving as a strategic stronghold in the Welsh Marches frontier region. The monument comprises an imposing earthwork mound, or motte, with an adjoining section of the town wall that formed part of the castle's defensive circuit. The site remains substantially preserved as an earthwork, representing an important example of early Norman military architecture in the borderlands.
Oswestry Castle: motte and adjoining section of the town wall immediately north east of Christ Church is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019300. View the official record →
Oswestry Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortress positioned immediately north east of Christ Church in the market town of Oswestry, Shropshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019300.
Oswestry Castle: motte and adjoining section of the town wall immediately north east of Christ Church 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 1019300.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Offa's Dyke: section 200yds (180m) long, S of The Royal Oak Inn (5.5 km), Offa's Dyke: section 330yds (300m) S from Treflach Wood (5.7 km), Offa's Dyke: section 90m east of Ty Gwyn (6.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Oswestry Castle: motte and adjoining section of the town wall immediately north east of Christ Church'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.
Oswestry Castle: motte and adjoining section of the town wall immediately north east of Christ Church stands on Warwickshire Group, bedrock that formed in the Early Permian. The rock here is siltstone and sandstone with subordinate mudstone.