Stansted Castle

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

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Stansted Castle preserves the earthworks of a former ringwork castle in Essex. The Albion Guide charts seven ringwork castles in the county; this is one of them. The nearest other ringwork castle is Canfield Castle, 10.6 km to the south-east. Stansted Mountfitchet Station is under a kilometre away.

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