Trematon Castle

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Trematon Castle
Saltash, Cornwall
Trematon Castle
Trematon Castle
Coordinates	50°24′02″N 4°14′16″W / 50.40044°N 4.23774°W / 50.40044; -4.23774
Type	Shell keep with bailey
Site information
Condition	Ruined
Scheduled monument
Official name	Trematon Castle, a shell keep built on a motte and bailey castle
Designated	20 May 1960
Reference no.	1004384
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Higher Lodge at Trematon Castle
Designated	22 November 1982
Reference no.	1140409

Trematon Castle (Cornish: Kastel Tremen) is situated near Saltash in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was the caput of the feudal barony of Trematon. It is similar in style to the later Restormel Castle, with a 12th-century keep. Trematon Castle overlooks Plymouth Sound and was built probably by Robert, Count of Mortain on the ruins of an earlier Roman fort: it is a motte-and-bailey castle and dates from soon after the Norman conquest. It occupies a sentinel position one and a half miles south-east of Trematon village (grid reference SX41065801).