This area of scrub containing two scheduled sites - 'Castle Hills' (a rare undisturbed example of a waterlogged motte and bailey castle') and 'Radclife Moat' (a 'well preserved moated manor house site') (see Magilton 1977, 3) - probably also represents at least part of the site of 'Hangthwaite' or 'Langthwaite' village which contained 7 properties in 1279 (Beresford 1953, 239). English Heritage state that "faint earthworks in the field separating the two monuments indicate the site of the deserted village" (EH 1995), whilst Beresford noted that "the village .. Seems to lie by the moats, but the railway bisects the site and partly obscures it" (1953, 239). A settlement at Langthwaite is marked by Speede (1610) but not by Jefferys (1775). Significant legibility of medieval settlement.