Sollers Hope is a parish to the south east of Hereford, not far from Fownhope. Hope means a small enclosed blind valley and
perfectly describes the location of this castle.

This site is in the classic location of castle, with church and later Elizabethan manor house all in one complex, indicating the centre of the manor with the lord supporting the church and then building a better more comfortable house. It is largely in a non defensive position, which indicates that this was more a residence than a castle, although there is a deep stream on the west side and a series of lynchets in the valley on the north to the east of the stream that may in some way be connected to water management and the castle site.

At Court Farm 30 yards to the north of St. Michael’s Church at Sollers Hope is a mound. In the 13th century the manor belonged to the Sollers family. The mound is 36 yards in diameter and rises 5-7ft above the wide ditch that surrounds it. The ditch has an outer bank. The Eastern corner of the outer bank, along with the Southeastern corner of the mound has been destroyed by the construction of a garden.

A ringwork at Court Farm consists of a sub-rectangular mound with its Western half enclosed by a shallow dry ditch. The mound rises 1.8m out of the ditch, which has a maximum depth of 0.7m. This is probably a motte.

Near Court Farm there is a single elliptical detached camp, which is considered the most southerly of the fortifications made in the wars between Britain’s and Romans.