Castle Steads Rowley. Main enclosure ditch. July 2001

This is the site of a medieval manor house. There are a row of three enclosures surrounded by earthen banks and a moat. The central enclosure contained a chapel and the eastern once probably contained the fortified manor house and ancilliary buildings. The manor was probably built there in the late twelfth century, and abandoned in the mid-seventeenth century. This is a Scheduled Ancient Monument protected by law.