Mitford Castle

Mitford Castle is an English castle dating from the end of the 11th century and located at Mitford, Northumberland. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building, enlisted on 20 October 1969.^[2] The castle is also officially on the Buildings at Risk Register. The Norman motte and bailey castle stands on a small prominence, a somewhat elliptical mound,^[3] above the River Wansbeck. The selected building site allowed for it be to natural hill scarped and ditched, producing the motte.^[2]

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