Barrow Hill

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Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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A motte-and-bailey castle once stood here — today it survives as earthworks in Hertfordshire. The Albion Guide maps eleven motte-and-bailey castles in the county; this is one of them. The nearest railway station is St Margarets (Herts), 6.2 km to the south-west.

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