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This site, origi­nally described as a simple moat, is in the southern part of the village. It is almost circular, about 50m in diameter, and surrounded by a mostly wet ditch. There are traces of a ringwork rampart with indications of buried stone within. An excavation some years ago exposed the corner of a square building with a wall thickness exceeding 2m that could have been a rectangular keep. It is possible that Dilwyn was one of the few stone square or rectangular keeps in Herefordshire. The tower might have been surrounded by a shell-wall built up behind the rampart, indicating a very strong castle, The large bailey was to the east with two fishponds and an embankment creating its boundary on the south-east and the road to the east and north. There are traces of a platform on the east of the bailey, but the northern half has been largely destroyed by a recent housing deveiopment and without any record being made of this lost area of the site. There is still water in part of the moat.
Although Dilwyn belonged to William de Ecouis at the time of the Domesday Survey, it was given to Godfrey de Carnages and for a long time became the centre of their estate. In the early thirteenth century it was held by William de Braose, but by the mid-thirteenth century the manor may have been split into two parts belonging to the fitz Warms and the Mallorys. This could provide a possible explanation for the several castle and/or moated sites in the parish.

About 1km south of the church and on the southern side of Stretford Brook is an almost square moat with a mostly wet ditch. There are the remains of a bridge abutment and seventeenth century pottery has been found, but the site is probably earlier.
This was probably a lightly fortified house with associated farm buildings. This site may be associated with documentary evidence for the sub-manor of Falle or Fawley. Feudal Aids states that Alleton (Domesday manor) and Falle are members of the Honour of Weobley. 1733 estate maps of the Homme shows Fawley moat as a walled garden with an L shaped farm next to it.

On the opposite side of the Stretford Brook to the Fields Place moated site and partly cut by the road, aerial photographs have suggested a possible motte and bailey castle. The mottc was just to the east of the road with a bailey cut in two by the road. A possible second bailey and fishponds lie between the motte and the stream.