Kherigarh

Kherigarh stood in the forested northern frontier of Awadh, among rivers and lowlands approaching Nepal. Its old fort was one of several strongholds built to guard the frontier. Tradition attributes its construction to Firuz Shah Tughlaq in the fourteenth century, although another account names Muhammad bin Tughlaq. Ruined masonry and old mounds recall the fort and settlement in a landscape of forests, marshes and changing river channels.