Remains of Plympton Castle, Barbican Road, Plympton St Maurice, Plymouth
The remains of a castle keep on its motte or mound. In 1136 the castle was besieged and razed to the ground by King Stephen. The present building may date from the 1140s when Baldwin de Redvers recovered his estates and was made Earl of Devon by the Empress Matilda. It was used as a stronghold for Royalists in the Civil War, when they besieged Plymouth from 1642 to 1646. Prince Maurice had his headquarters here with five regiments of horse and nine of foot soldiers, but it was taken by the Parliamentary force in 1644.
