sentences:  The name "Brailes" is thought to originate either from the Old Welsh "breg-lis" - "hill court" - or the Old English "byrgels" - "burial place".Castle Hill Motte in the middle of the village is a natural knoll that was made higher in the Norman era to form the motte of a motte-and-bailey castle.Its construction may have been ordered by Roger de Beaumont, who was Earl of Warwick 1123–53.