The Gatehouse website record for Canons Ashby Castle Hill

In the civil parish of Canons Ashby. In the historic county of Northamptonshire (Modern Authority of Northamptonshire, 1974 county of Northamptonshire).

Medieval motte and bailey situated in the grounds of Canons Ashby House, approximately 350m to the north west. The castle comprises an hexagonal mound, 50m in diameter and up to 3m high, which is known as Castle Hill. The top of the mound is surrounded by a shallow ditch about 15m wide. The mound stands within a roughly rectangular area bounded on the south, west and north by a broad depression up to 20m wide; on the east side of the road this boundary continues as a narrow ditch with an external bank. The castle was abandoned in the medieval period when part of the bailey was overlain by the expanding settlement of Canons Ashby. During the late C18 part of the bailey and the motte were used as a garden feature to Canons Ashby House. The earthwork was surveyed in 1992 by RCHME field staff.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP57495091

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 339689
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