Mountfitchet Castle and Norman Village
Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex CM24 8SP - England, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1279 813237 - Fax: +44 (0)1279 816391
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This castle is a national historic monument, protected by the Department of the Environment. There is believed to have been a castle on the sight since the Iron Age, but this re-construction is of the castle and Norman village that would have stood around the thirteenth Century. Baron Montfitchet, after which the castle and village is named was involved in a plot against King John and was one of the noblemen in attendance at the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. The castle and village is now a popular tourist attraction and important archaeological site open to the public.
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