Brompton Mill Castle Mound

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Brompton Hall; Brompton and Rhiston

In the civil parish of Chirbury With Brompton.
In the historic county of Shropshire (Modern Authority of Shropshire, 1974 county of Shropshire).

Medieval motte and bailey castle surviving as an earthwork and mapped from aerial photographs. A very well preserved conical motte, visible from road but not accessable. The motte has a base diameter of 33m and a height of 7.5m and the summit is 7 to 8m in diameter. The encircling ditch is 8m in width and 1m in depth, but has been filled in on the south west side and destroyed on the north side by the cutting of a mill stream. The bailey to the south east is about 50m across and is bounded on the south side by a steep scarp 8m in length and 3m in height. The Motte and bailey may be C12 in date. Built on line of Offa's Dyke.

This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Earthworks remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO25099316

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 105572

• Web site links
  • http://www.castlewales.com/brompt_mill.html
• Books
  • Salter, Mike, 2001 (2edn), The Castles and Moated Mansions of Shropshire (Malvern) p27
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p219 [slight]
    Jackson, M.J.,1988, Castles of Shropshire (Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries) p8-9
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p421
    Wall [after Downham], 1908, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Shropshire Vol1 p391 [plan]
• Journal Articles
  • King, D.J.C. and Spurgeon, C.J., 1965, ‘The mottes in the Vale of Montgomery’ Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol114 p73, 80-1
    Hogg, A.H.A. and King, D.J.C., 1963, 'Early castles in Wales and the Marches: a preliminary list' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol112 p77-124
    Chitty, Lily, 1949, 'Subsidiary Castle Sites West of Shrewsbury' Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society Vol53 p83-90
    1931, Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol86 p444-6
    Fox, C., 1929, 'Offa's Dyke: A field survey. Fourth Report (Montgomeryshire)' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol84 p43