Wigmore

Wigmore lies in the Welsh Marches of northern Herefordshire. Its castle was founded in 1067 after the Norman Conquest and became a principal stronghold of the Mortimer family, whose lands extended across England and Wales. Stone buildings and defences were rebuilt during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; Roger Mortimer held a tournament there in 1329 attended by the young Edward III and his mother.

The castle passed out of Mortimer hands in 1425 and was bought from the Crown by the Harley family in 1601. During the English Civil War, Brilliana Harley ordered its walls dismantled in 1643 to prevent their use by opposing forces. The castle subsequently fell into ruin.