Dorstone Castle

Hereford & Worcester
SO 312 416

Photographs copyright © 2002 by Laurie Oliver

A motte castle of the late 11th/early 12th century which survived into the 13th century without conversion to stone. The mound is over 6m (20 ft) in height.

Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Castles of Britain and Ireland, Abbeville Press, 1996.

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