Barden Tower
SE 050573
Embsay

Hunting Lodge

Clifford : Chequy or and azure, a fess gules

Barden Tower, once one of the six hunting lodges associated with Barden Forest, is located in upper Wharfdale. The original building was upgraded and enlarged by Henry Clifford, son of John Clifford, known during the Wars of the Roses as "The Butcher".

Bardsey
SE 366433
Wetherby

Motte

Crown, Mowbray, de Brus
Mowbray:Gules, a lion rampant argent differenced:
de Brus : Or, a saltire with a chief gules

Bardsey Castle Hill presents an earth work of an oval motte divided into two wards by deep indentations on each of its 330 feet long sides.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Curious elongated platform, apparently cut in half by cross-ditch.

Castellarium Anglicanum : gatehouse and ward lined with buildings, with some 15^th century detail.

Barwick in Elmet
SE 393375
Leeds

Motte and Bailey
12^thC

de Lacy ~ Quartered gules and or with a baston sinister sable overall a lable of five points argent within a narrow bordure sable

This unusual Motte and bailey complex has the motte completely enclosed by the bailey, with to the north there are traces of what might have been the burgus or village of the castle.

Castellarium Anglicanum : (Hall Tower Hill) Motte inside inner bailey ; large burgus enclosure. Mentioned temp. Stephen, 1142~54

Beighton
SK 44 83
Sheffield

Castle

Bentley
WR

Probable moated fortified house

Beverley North Bar
TA 030399
North of Hull

Town gate
15^thC

Beverley:  Argent, three bars wavy azure, on a chief of the last a castor beaver with his head turned biting off the castor all or. :

Brick built town gate

Leland states : The town is not walled, but yet there be there these many fair gates of brick, North Bar, Newbeggin Bar by west, and Keldgate Bar by west also.

Bewerley
SE 166647
Pateley Bridge

Motte with likely ringwork

Bilton
TA 157326
Swan Hill/Hull

Motte

A probable medieval motte, there are some slight earthworks to the SW. A moated site existed a short distance away which was likely the successor to the castle.

Bingley
SE 102398
Bingley

Tower with possible ringwork and bailey

Bishop Wilton
SE 801 554

Le Patourel : series of fish ponds following line of stream to SE. Suggestion of gatehouse at SW corner, and gap, not quite central, in N moat. Air photo shows another large enclosure to S. Estate belonged to see of York before Conquest : demesne manor house used by archbishop during 13^th and 14^th centuries

Blacktoft
SE 864249
Selby

12^thC
Templar Preceptory

Knights Templar, the Crown

This is probably the site of the Knights Templar's 12th century preceptory which was held by the Crown 1322-26 and the most highly valued in the county of Yorkshire. May have had defensive features

Blaxton
SE 669007
Doncaster

Motte & Bailey

Bolderstone

Castle

Remains of gatehouse

Bolling Hall
SE 173314
Bradford

Pele Tower
14^thC

Bolling, Tempest

Castellarium Anglicanum : Tower, 14^th century, with later tower and other buildings.

Bolsterstone
WR

Manor House

Thomas de Sheffield, Robert de Rockley

Bolton
SE 034918
Wensleydale

Courtyard castle
14th C

Scope of Bolton
Azure, a bend or

According to Leland, Bolton was the chief house of the Lorde Scope.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Powerful Northern type quadrangular castle, with four great angle towers and two small turrets on the longer faces. All doors in court-yard fitted with portcullises. Licensed to crenellate 1379. Taken by starvation 1645 (ECW)

Bolton by Holland
WR

Probable fortified manor house

de Pudsay

Bolton on Swale
SE 253991
Catterick

Pele Tower
15th C

Castellarium Anglicanum : Tower and later buildings

Bossal
SE 717608

Fortified Manor?

Bossall/Buttercram : Manor of Redmayne

Thwaites : Azure , a fess between three stars (of six points) or

Castellarium Anglicanum : (Buttercrambe) Slight traces of earthworks. Licensed to Crenellate 1201

Bowes
SD 130995 / NY 992 134
Stainmore Pass

Enclosure
12th C

Crown, Peter of Savoy

Castellarium Anglicanum : Norman keep, with ditched platform ; inside the Roman station of Lavatrae. Built 1171~4. Taken by local barons in anarchy of 1322, or a little earlier.

Bradfield
SK 266927
Sheffield

Motte and Bailey

de Furnival
de Furnival:Argent, a bend between six martlets gules

There are indications of two motte and bailey castles here. Bailey Hill has a very fine mount but there are only fragmentary traces at Castle Hill, where at one time there is supposed to have been a keep.

Castellarium Anglicanum : (Bailey Hill) large motte and bailey against a cliff ; very strong ; both motte and bailey bank seem to be made of piled stone.

Bradfield Number 2
SK 271923
Sheffield

Enclosure

Castellarium Anglicanum : (Castle Hill) Rocky ridge at the head of a towering escarpment. A small area seems to have been occupied by a partial ring-work, but the whole has been much mutilated.

Bradford

unknown castle/Civil War siege

de Lacy earls of Lincoln

Brancholme
TA 125343
Hull

Motte

Bygod, Salvain according to Poulson's Holderness
Bygod : Or, a cross gules charged with five escollops argent :
Salvain:Quarterly, 1 and 4, argent on a chief sable, two mullets or, 3 and 4, or, a bend sable.

Bridlington
TA 18-68-
Bridlington

Fortified Priory
12^thC

Bridlington (Quay) Forts
TA 187669
Bridlington

Artillery Forts
16/17thC

Crown

Fort site possibly as early as Henry VIII.

A fort of some kind had already been built and demolished prior to 1650.
Guns were mounted there from 1654 onwards.
One of three planned forts built under Charles II and finally demolished in the early 19th century.
There is no trace on the ground.
There may have been another fort south of the harbour, but now lost to the sea.

Brompton
SE 945821
Scarborough

Motte & Ditch

Castellarium Anglicanum : Remains of motte ; signs of masonry ; wet defence on one side.

Broughton
WR

Manor House

Gilliott

Burstwick
TA 220290
Holderness

Royal Residence
13^thC

Crown, de Coucy, de la Pole, Rutland, Stafford
de la Pole : Azure, a fess between three leopard's faces or :
de Coucy : Barry of six, vair and gules :

Thomas Woodstock : France ancient and England quartered within a bordure argent. Stafford, later Dukes of Buckingham : Or, a chevron gules.

Le Patourel : A1(b), with fish ponds. Caput Baronie of Albermarle fee, on slight rise. Buildings, largely of timber, including two chapels, hall, chambers, &c. Moat added to existing house in 1291. Out of vill. Note : R. Allen Brown, H.M. Colvin and A.J. Taylor, History of the King's Works, London, 1963, ii, 196. Related moat at TA 218 312, North Park, A2(c), with fish ponds. Hall with chamber at either end, chapel, kitchen and stable in the 14^th century. Moat constructed 1334 ~ 5. Ibid p. 905.

Burton Agnes
TA 103 633
Bridlington

Manor House
12^thC

de Stutville, de Merley[Morley?], Sir Roger deSomerville d1337, Griffiths in 1355 and the Boyntons in 1654

Manor house built by Roger de Stutville c. 1170-80. Late Norman building with 18^th century facade

Burton Agnes
TA 128 643

Le Patourel : (Haisthorpe) Moats of modern O.S. maps appear to be fish ponds, lately enlarged. Filled with water when visited. Moat extended eastwards from them, and N. return just visible. Enclosed with 'walls and ditches' by 1350. House on island.

Note : Proc. E. Riding Antiq. Soc., XVIII (1911), 85

Burton Constable
TA 190 366
Sproatley

Tower house
12th C
de Constable

Le Patourel : Unclassified. Moat by 1293. DMV.

W. Brown (ed), Yorkshire Inquisitions, ii (Y.A.S.R.S..,xxiii, 1898), 160.

Much changed, a few remaining ashlar blocks in Stephen's Tower.

Burton in Lonsdale
SD 649721
Ingleton

Motte & Bailey
12^thC

Mowbray : Gules, a lion rampant argent, with due difference

Castellarium Anglicanum : (Castle Hill) Ring-work with a bailey on each side ; bank of ring-work was revetted in stone. Mentioned 1130 as one of a group of confiscated castles, 1095. Probably abandoned by 1173.

Burythorpe
SE 798638
Malton

Adulterine
12th C

Buttercrambe/Bossall
SE 533584
York

Motte
13th C

de Stuteville
de Stuteville : Barruly [of 10 or12], argent and gules

See Bossall

Castellarium Anglicanum : slight traces of earthwork. Licensed 1201

Text compiled and edited by Richard Hayton

Heraldry rendered by Richard Hayton