Castle Acre Castle and town walls

Castle Acre Castle comprises three main earthworks: a motte and inner bailey to the north, an outer bailey to the south, and a barbican to the north-east. The medieval settlement of Castle Acre was linked to the western edge of the castle, and enclosed by its own circuit of earthwork defences and walls. Historic England consider the castle's huge defensive earthworks to be "among the finest surviving in England" The route into the earthwork barbican was guarded by a gateway and a bridge. The inner bailey comprises a roughly circular earthwork, up to 9.5 m high, topped by the remains of a stone curtain wall and protected by ditches, now about 3 m deep. The earthworks form a raised motte,…