Marlborough Castle

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Marlborough Castle, locally known and recorded in historical documents as The Mound,Marlborough Castle was an 11th-century royal castle located in the civil parish of Marlborough, a market town in the English county of Wiltshire, on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath (). The barrow on which the fortification was built, perhaps the "barrow of Maerla", seems to be a prehistoric earthwork which formed the motte of the Norman Marlborough Castle. 'The borough of Marlborough', A History of the County of Wiltshire 12: Ramsbury and Selkley hundreds; the borough of Marlborough (1983:199–229): accessed 8 May 2010. It survives as a tree-covered mound known as Marlborough Mound, within the site of Marlborough College. Read more on Wikipedia

type: military installation
date from: 1067

Source: en.wikipedia.org