Moreton Corbet Castle
This site was one of Jamie's favourite from 2025. We'd come across it while searching for places to visit in between Pendle and Kidderminster as that was the leg of the road trip that we were on and Moreton Corbet with its fascinating history hit the spot! The importance of the site dates all the way back to 1086 when two Anglo Saxon Thegns (landholding noblemen) lived here. These men were Hunning an Wulfgeat, but of course the property wasn't known as Moreton Corbet back then. The thirteenth century then came along, obviously the Anglo Saxons were long gone by then, and instead an Englishman named Toret took over the existing structure and site and put his mark on it. He build a new structure and when he died it stayed in the family. Peter Toret, a descendant of the original Toret, became lord of the site, which was still not Moreton Corbet yet, by 1166 and was thought to be living on the site and it passed to his own descendants. By 1216 Bartholo...
