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Walsall Castle
52.5846° N, -2.0001° E
About
Walsall Castle, also known as Walsall Moat, or le Mote during the 1400s, was a 12th or 13th-15th century moated manor house in the market town of Walsall in the West Midlands. The current site of the castle is occupied by a parking lot for the nearby Walsall Manor Hospital and the moat ran along what is now southern Moat Street - despite this, no visible remains exist and all earthworks have been flattened.
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First manor constructed
1199-1216
Owned by William de Rous
1220s
First documentary record
1275
Transfer to Roger Morteyn
1283
Rebuilt by Ralph Basset
1385-1386
Repairs and extension
1388-1389
Barony extinct
1390
Chapel out of use
1417
Abandonment
1430s
Traces removed
1576
Site purchased by Mr Holmes
1763
Northern moat filled
1885
Archaeological excavations begin
1970s
Moat still water-filled
1974
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