What is a feudal motte ?

It is a fortified earthen mound built in the Middle Ages to serve as a defensive base for a fortification, often surrounded by ditches and topped with palisades or light structures.

Can the Noyelle-Vion motte be visited ?

It is an archaeological structure in open land with no documented tourist facilities. Access varies depending on land ownership.

Noyelle-Vion Motte

Noyelle-Vion

Access

No visits on recordNo opening hours or ticketing found

Where: Noyelle-Vion

To make a day of it

Open within 20 km

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Motte féodale de Noyelle-Vion stands in Noyelle-Vion (Pas-de-Calais), in the Hauts-de-France region of France. The building is registered as a historic monument (dating recorded in the Mérimée database: Middle Ages). The building is privately owned and no visits are on record.

The feudal motte of Noyelle-Vion is a medieval earthwork in the Pas-de-Calais department, remains of a fortified structure characteristic of the Middle Ages. The site preserves the defensive mound and part of its ditch system, evidence of local military organization from the early medieval period.

What to know

The site has been protected as a historic monument since 1980, though it remains an archaeological structure in open land.
Access depends on whether the land is privately or publicly owned; no visitor facilities are documented.
The motte is among the rare remains of the ancient oppidum preserved on the site.

Where this château is

Noyelle-Vion · Pas-de-Calais · Hauts-de-France

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Address

Noyelle-Vion, Pas-de-Calais

Directions open from wherever you are, by car or public transport.

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Heritage status: Registered historic monument (inscrit); Mérimée record PA00108369
Period of construction: Middle Ages

Itineraries

Castles near Lille and the Belgian border: 2 days by car

Frequently asked

What is a feudal motte ?: It is a fortified earthen mound built in the Middle Ages to serve as a defensive base for a fortification, often surrounded by ditches and topped with palisades or light structures.
Can the Noyelle-Vion motte be visited ?: It is an archaeological structure in open land with no documented tourist facilities. Access varies depending on land ownership.