But an ancient castle in a rural village continues to act as a buttress against modern life’s encroachment upon rural countryside. A bid to create a solar farm on land in Wormegay has been blocked by ...

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If approved by South Derbyshire District Council the estate would sit close to Toons Furnishers, the A444 roundabout, the railway line and the ancient motte and bailey castle mound that gives the ...

A bid to create a solar farm on land in Wormegay, near King's Lynn, has been blocked by government officials due to fears it would harm the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle close by.

English Heritage has confirmed that Totnes Castle - one of the best preserved examples of a Norman motte and bailey castle in England - could close during the winter months as part of major ...

Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. Find out how King David I changed Scotland by inviting Norman knights to build motte-and-bailey castles. Why did towns and burghs appear around castles?

Plans to build 75 homes on the outskirts of a Derbyshire village near a medieval castle have been submitted. The proposal, from developer Nightingale Land, would see the properties built on fields ...

Plans to build more than 70 homes on the outskirts of a Derbyshire village near a medieval castle have been submitted. The plans, from Nightingale Land, would see 75 homes built on fields to the ...