The Gatehouse website record for Uppingham Castle Hill

In the civil parish of Beaumont Chase. In the historic county of Rutland (Modern Authority of Rutland, 1974 county of Leicestershire).

Medieval motte and bailey castle surviving as an earthwork; supposed outer bailey traced as a cropmark. The Motte is 8 to 10m tall from the base of the ditch and has a flat top approximately 12m across. the Motte ditch is semi-circular in shape and is 6 to 8m wide. There are no signs of slight banks at the two ends before the ground slopes away to the west. The outer bank of the bailey survives as a very low earthwork some 50m to the east of the motte. Creighton writes this was not an adulterine castle, as usual suggested, but the seat of the appointed royal forester.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SK84970046

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 323387
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