[1] The land where Odell Castle stood was originally owned by Levenot, a thegn of King Edward the Confessor.

After the Norman invasion, William the Conqueror gave the lands, manor, and title, to Walter de Flandrensis (circa 1068).

In 1542, the title died out with the absence of a male heir and came into the possession of 17-year-old Agnes Woodhall, a descendant of de Wahul's.

Upon her death in 1575 it passed to her son Richard Chetwood, who sold it to William Alston in 1633.

Alston built a new residence, incorporating the remains of the keep, the oval motte of the old castle still held up by a retaining wall.