Hedingham castle in Essex is a Norman mote and bailey castle with a stone keep. It may occupy the site of an earlier castle believed to have been built in the late 11th or early 12th century by Aubrey de Vere, a Norman baron. Hedingham was one of the largest manors among those acquired by Aubrey I by circa 1080 and it became the head of the Vere barony by the later 12th century.