Caus Castle (233.6 m) is on private land. It is a small but prominent hill at the south eastern end of the Long Mountain. There is a right of way up to the farmhouse and round the back of it, but there is no public access to the hill itself. I sought and was given permission to go up to the castle at the farmhouse.
It is a small multivallate hillfort (iron age?) which has been used and partially adapted in the medieval period to form a motte and bailey castle. It was probably constructed by Roger Fitz Corbet, a marcher lord, in the late 11th or early 12th century. Caus takes its name from the Pays de Caux area of Normandy, the ancestral home of Roger Fitz Corbet.
MY STARTING POINT: Grid Ref: SJ 34208 08224 Nearest Postcode: SY5 9RS
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