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• Castle Camps
  |name=Castle Camps |picture=Castle Camps, All Saints - geograph.org.uk - 3295.jpg
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• Market Drayton
  ...shop opening hours, and included along the path is the site of an ancient motte-and-bailey structure which overlooks the [[River Tern]] valley. ...r the A529 an eighteenth-century farmhouse stands on the site of '''Tyrley Castle''', which was probably built soon after 1066 and later rebuilt in stone in
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• Weston-super-Mare
  ...meter which is believed to be the remains of a motte.<ref>{{cite web|title=Castle Batch|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=192666|work=Pastscape ...s since been built towards the east of the town in North Worle and Locking Castle, nearer to the M5 motorway.
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• Wincanton
  ...> The castle sits close to the contemporary Norman castles of Ballands and Castle Orchard, and may have been built a system of fortifications to control the ...[http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=53716 Motte and Bailey Castle, Cockroad Wood, Charlton Musgrove]'', Somerset County Historic Environmenta
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• Walton on the Hill
  ...conquest motte within the grounds of Walton Place, the remains of a timber castle.<ref>{{cite web
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• Rapes of Sussex
  ...man period<ref>Ellis,quoted in Norman John Greville Pounds, ''The medieval castle in England and Wales: a social and political history'' 1993:17.</ref> Each ! colspan="1" | Castle
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• Devizes
  ...and a Town Hall. Its development has grown around the 11th century Norman castle. ...es''.<ref>[http://www.devizesheritage.org.uk/castle.html Devizes Heritage: Castle]</ref> On John Speed's map of [[Wiltshire]] (1611), the town's name is reco
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• Trowbridge
  ===Castle=== ...e. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.</ref> when it was besieged, but when the castle was built is not known.
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• River Afan
  ...eravon]], though no remains are now visible above ground. The site of the castle is nevertheless commemorated in local street names.
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• Abergwyngregyn
  ...garded as the base of a Norman castle, and on that basis was renamed 'Aber Castle Mound' by the Ancient Monuments Board. E. S. Armitage, in The Early Norman ...'chamber', and there is no evidence that there was ever a motte and bailey castle at Aber. It has been suggested that it might be a much earlier mound built
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• Northallerton
  ...ilitary station. There is evidence that the Romans had a signal station on Castle Hills just to the west of the town as part of the imperial Roman postal sys ...to regroup in sufficient number to besiege and capture [[Wark on Tyne|Wark Castle]].
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• Crickhowell
  ...the 14th-century parish church of St Edmund, and the ruins of Crickhowell Castle on the green "tump" beside the A40 [[Brecon]] to [[Abergavenny]] road. ==Crickhowell Castle==
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• Brampton Bryan
  ==Brampton Castle== ...th of the [[River Teme]], 60 yards north of the church. From this site the castle guarded an important route from [[Ludlow]] along the Teme Valley to Knighto
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• Denton and Caldecote
  ...till stands at Washingley and by it the earthworks from a motte and bailey castle. The woods around the site of Washingley mark out a square pattern bearing
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• Rogerstone
  ...Roger de Haia, the Norman Lord who was responsible for the building of the castle, the remains of which are reduced to a low bush and tree covered motte oppo
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• Tonbridge
  |picture caption=Tonbridge Castle ===Normans and Tonbridge Castle===
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• Gwent
  ...intermittently until 1217, when William Marshal sent troops to retake the castle at Caerleon. ...t in Britain and certainly the rest of the Welsh Marches, with at least 25 castle sites remaining in Monmouthshire alone today.<ref name=gwentch2>Ralph A. Gr
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• Washingley
  ...here, the overgrown remains of a motte and bailey, which are a hint of the castle and village which once stood here, now vanished.
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• Eardisley Castle
  {{Infobox castle |name=Eardisley Castle
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• Aberffraw
  ...was dismantled in 1315 to provide building materials for nearby Beaumaris Castle.
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