Home Farm motte

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

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Home Farm motte preserves the earthworks of a former motte-and-bailey castle in Shropshire. It is one of 40 motte-and-bailey castles the Albion Guide charts in the county. It sits within the Shropshire Hills National Landscape.

The nearest railway station is Church Stretton, 3.8 km to the north-east. For more of the same, Brockhurst Castle and Worsley Castle Hill are close by.

Full name: Motte castle 80m north east of Home Farm

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