Knockin Castle

Knockin Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Knockin between Oswestry and Shrewsbury in the English county of Shropshire .

The moth was Guy le Strange 1154-1160 build. It remained in the hands of the Le Strange family for most of the Middle Ages . The castle was damaged during the first war of the barons in the reign of Johann Ohneland , but then John le Strange had it repaired.

In 1540 Knockin Castle is described as "in ruins". Today only a tree-lined mound remains from the castle .

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• Knockin Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer.
• Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 , p. 250.

Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '38.9 "  N , 2 ° 59" 20.9 "  W.