Hopton Castle

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The keep of Hopton Castle in 2009

Hopton Castle is a medieval ruin in Shropshire. The first surviving documentary record of Hopton Castle is from 1264, but it could have been founded as early as the 11th century.[1] Since 2008 the site has been in the ownership of Hopton Castle Preservation Trust. Hopton Castle is both a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument and is included in English Heritage's 'Heritage at Risk Register'; a sixth of the scheduled monuments in the West Midlands are considered "at risk", and Hopton Castle's state is "very bad".[2]

References

  1. ↑ Wessex Archaeology (April 2010). Hopton Castle, Shropshire: Archaeological Excavation Report. Salisbury: Wessex Archaeology Limited. pp. 2–4.
  2. ↑ English Heritage (2010). Heritage at Risk Register, 2010: West Midlands, English Heritage, accessed 3 March 2013. pp. 4, 27.
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