The Gatehouse website record for Barwick in Elmet, Hall Tower Hill

In the civil parish of Barwick In Elmet And Scholes. In the historic county of Yorkshire West Riding (Modern Authority of Leeds, 1974 county of West Yorkshire).

Motte and bailey castle was built at the southern end of Iron Age univallate hillfort and comprised the motte, which stands c.15m high and is surrounded by a deep ditch c.15m wide, and the bailey which extended to the north and east. The east side of the bailey, which originally extended beyond the limits of the earlier hillfort, has largely been built over by urban development within Barwick in Elmet, but sufficient remains to contain ample buried evidence of the domestic and garrison buildings that formerly occupied it. When the motte was built it would have been crowned by a timber tower and palisade, but there is as yet no evidence that this was ever replaced in stone. The castle was built by the de Lacy family, who held the Honour of Pontefract throughout most of the Middle Ages, and was the administrative centre of the northern part of the Honour; a role it took over from the ringwork castle at Kippax

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE39893769

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This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 52862
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