YORKSHIRE FORTIFICATIONS

1066 to 1900 

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July-Park-Houses
Whitby

Moated manor

Mauley

Kelk
TA 114604
Hornsea

Mound

Kexby
SE 702493

Fortified Manor

Licensed to crenellate granted 1349

Killerby
SE 258960
Catterick

Enclosure

13th C

Castellarium Anglicanum : Remains of stone castle. Licensed 1291.

Killerby Number 2 (Castle Hills)
SE 254971
Catterick

Motte & Bailey

Killinghall
WR

Manor House

Pulleyn, Tancred, Baynes

Kilton
NZ 704176
Saltburn

Enclosure

12th C

Castellanium Anglicanum : ".. apparently two wards in succession, both walled in the late 12th C. 14th C additions include a square tower and two half round ones .. "

Kilton, Thweng

Kilton : Or, three eagles displayed gules. :

Thweng : Or, a fess gules or : or a fess gules between three popinjays vert.

Kilton castle presently lies within the boundaries of the county of Cleveland, but when erected it was quite firmly in the North Riding of Yorkshire, located near Loftus, Brotton and Skelton. The castle, which was first mentioned in records c1265, was sited on a steep sided outcrop and built by a member of the Kilton family, though by 1278/9 the influential Thweng family were associated with it. The castle was an enclosure of two wards surrounded by a curtain wall. The arms of Thweng pose a small dilemma as they are the same as those of Colville of Kirby Sigston and Wheldrake, ie, or a fess gules, according to Burk's Extinct Peerage. The Victoria County History however supports Burk's General Armoury which portrays them as Gules, nine popinjays or. The County History shows Sir Robert Lumley (who married Lucia Thweng and took their arms) as or, a fess gules between three popinjays vert which if correct indicates that Thweng was indeed the former.

Kimberworth
WR

Castle

Kingston upon Hull
Humber

Guard ships

Royal Navy

Admiralty memorandum of 1st October 1856 led to the creation and installation of the Coast Guard. H.M.S. Cornwallis was dispatched to Hull for this purpose. She was replaced in 1864 by H.M.S. Dauntless. The service was discontinued from 1903.

Kingston upon Hull
TA 104286

Artillery Forts

16th C

Crown

Artillery castle with block-houses to the north and south, maintained and improved until removed in 1864. Archaeological remains only.

Kingston upon Hull
Town Walls & Gates

14th C

Corporation

Azure, three crowns in pale or

Leland states : In the wall be four principal gates of brick. The north gate having four wards betwix the which and Beverley Gate be twelve towers of brick and in one of them a postern. There be five towers of brick and one of them a postern, as I remember, betwixt Beverley Gate and Myton Gate. There be three towers of brick betixt Myton Gate and Hassle gate of three wards. From thence to the mouth of the haven there be five towers of brick to which the Humber Sea cometh and one of these is a postern to the shore. From the mouth of the Hul lriver up into the haven there is no wall but every merchant hath his stairs even unto the North gate.

Archaeological remains only, though the partially exposed Beverley gate is open to view.

 

Kippax
SE 417304
Castleford

Motte, suggested ring-work and remains of bailey

de Lacy, Crown

De Lacy : Quartered gules and or with a baston sinister sable, overall a lable of three points argent within a narrow bordure sable

Kirby Fleetham
SE 285943
Northallerton

Motte & Ditch

14th C

Castellarium Anglicanum : an earthwork very much like a sub-rectangular motte, with remains of stout revetments to scarp and counter scarp.

Kirby Knowle
NR

Quad. enclosure

14th C?

de Lascelles, Constable of Kirby Knowle

Lascelles : Sable a cross pate' or ;

Constable of Kirby Knowle : Or a fess gobony argent and azure a lion pass. Gules in Chief

Kirby Malzeard
SE 237745
Ripon

Motte and Shell Keep

11th C

Mowbray

Gules, a lion rampant argent, with due difference

Leland states : After that I passed from Thorpe half a mile I left hard on the left hand Kirby Malzeard where Mowbray had once a great castle. The lordship now belongeth the earl of Derby.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Destroyed 1174. Inner defences were masonry

Kirby Moorside
SE 695873
Pickering

Fortified Manor

13th C

De Stuteville

De Stuteville : Barruly [10 or 12], argent and gules

Castellarium Anglicanum : Ditches and bank, apparent stone castle.

Kirby Moorside Number 2
SE 693870
Pickering

Prior to above

Kirby Sigston
NZ 416952
Northallerton

Tower and Enclosure

14th C

Licensed 1336

Durham, Colville, de Siggeston

Bishopric of Durham:Azure, a cross or between four lions rampant argent :

Collville : Or, a fess gules with due difference (see also Thweng)

Knaresborough
SE 343569

Enclosure

11th C

Crown, Gaunt Duke of Lancaster

France ancient and England quartered with a lable of three points each charged with three ermine

Castellarium Anglicanum : Large and powerful promontory fortress, now utterly ruined. F.m. 1130, rebuilt 1204 - 13 as a two ward castle, very strongly ditched, again rebuilt 1307 - 12, with solid round turrets added to the walls, and a great semi-octagonal tower which appears to have been independently defensible. Three underground salley ports. Taken and re-taken 1317 - 1318, and in the ECW 1644.

Langthwaite
WR
Doncaster

Motte and Bailey

11th C

Mortain/Fossard

Mortain : Or, six lions rampant sable, three two one. :

Fossard : Or, a bend sable

Langton
SE 795670
Pocklington

Earthworks

Laughton en Le Morthen
WR
SK 516882
Dinnington

Motte and Bailey

11th C

de Busli, Honour of Tickhill

de Busli : Gules a bezant or. :

de Laughton Lords of L.e.l.M.-Ancient : A cross between four quatrefoils within a bordure : Later : Quarterly per fess indented or and gules

Lawkland Hall
SD 777659
Settle

Tower

Leconfield
TA 013432
Beverley

Fortified Manor

14th C

Percy

Percy : Azure, five fuzils conjoined in fess or

Leland states : Leconfield is a large house and standeth within a great moat in one very spacious court. Three parts of the house, saving the mean gate that is made of brick, is all of timber, the fourth part is fair made of stone and some brick. I saw in a little studying chamber there called Paradise, the geneology of the Percys.

Licence to crenellate was granted 1308

Leeds castle

MISTAKEN IDENTITY FOR LEEDS CASTLE IN KENT

Leeds


Town gates
Fortified town gates

Leppington
SE 764612
Pocklington

Motte and Bailey

Liversedge
WR

Manor House

Neville

Lockington/Thorpe
ER
SE 998465
Beverley

Motte and Bailey

Mortain/Fossard

Mortain : Or, six lions rampant sable, three two one. :

Fossard : Or, a bend sable

Leland states : Salvain had for his part ( of the Mauley estates, see Mount Ferrant) of the Mauley's lands, the barony of Eggeston (Egton) on Eske not far from Whitby, also Lockington, Brough, (there was once a fair manor place of the Mauley's at Brough)

Loftus
NR

Mound

Londesbrough
ER

Manor House

Clifford

Malton
SE 793718

Motte

12th C

Eustace FitzJohn, John de Mowbray

FitzJohn : Azure, a chief indented or. :

Mowbray : Gules a lion rampant argent with due difference

Leland states : The castle of Malton hath been large as it appeareth by the ruin. There is at this time no habitation in it but a mean house for a farmer. These men hath the lordship of Malton in partition, the Lord Clifford, Yvers, and one of the Conyers, but Yevers hath beside, the whole lordship of old Malton

Castellarium Anglicanum : Said to have had a motte. F.m. 1138, when taken, dismantled 1214, later rebuilt. Taken by Robert De Brus in 1322 and used as a raiding base, before being destroyed in the same year.

Malton (New)

Town Walls

Roughly rectangular in plan.

Manor Garth
SE 542337
Sherburn

Fortified Manor

14th C

Archbishopric of York

Markenfield
SE 294673
Ripon

Fortified Manor

14th C

Markenfield

Argent, on a bend sable three bezants

Licensed to crenelate 1310, possibly same date for the moat system.

Masham
NR

Manor House

Scope of Masham

Melsonby
NZ 201083
Richmond

Tower house

Methley ?Wood Hall
WR

Manor House

Licensed to crenellate 1410 to Robert Waterton

DeLacy

Mexborough
SK 485999
Sheffield

Motte & Bailey

de Busli

de Busli : Gules, a bezant or.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Motte and two baileys, side by side, one very small and appears to have been a barbican.

Middleham
SE 128875
Wensleydale

Courtyard Castle

11th C

FitzRandolph, Neville, Crown

FitzRandolph : Azure, a chief indented or. :

Neville : Gules, a saltire argent

According to Leland Middleham belonged tothe Erle of Warwike. All the outer part of the castle was of the very new setting of the Lord Neville called Daraby. The inner part of Middleham castle was of an ancient building of the FitzRandolph.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Great Norman keep late 12th C, with some outer enclosures of no great strength. In the 14th C a complete quadrangle was made around the tower, and the defences raised and furnished with rectangular angle towers and gatehouse.

Middleham Number 2 (William's Hill)
SE 125873

Before above, ring-work of great strength, bailey, wet defences.

Mirfield
SE 212205
Huddersfield

Motte

11th C

Ilbert de Lacy, Neville

de Lacy : Quartered gules and or with a baston sinister sable, a lable of five points argent all within a narrow bordure sable. :

Neville : Gules, a saltire argent with due difference

Mirfield was a simple motte 29ft high surrounded by a wide ditch of 25ft. After the Conquest, the manor was held of Ilbert de Lacy of Pontefract by three Englishmen. The manor was unified under the Nevilles. In the reign of Henry VIII a timber house superceded the site of the castle hall.

Moor Monkton
WR
SE 530572

Fortified Manor

14thC

Possibly Ughtred Manor

Called the Red House

License was granted 1392

partially excavated

Mortham
NZ 087142
Barnard Castle

Tower with corbelled turrets

14th C

Thomas Rokerby 15thC

Rokerby : Argent, a chevron sable between three rooks proper.

Mount Ferrant
SE 796638
Malton

Enclosure

11th C

Mortain/Fossard

Mortain : Or, six lions rampant sable, three two one. :

Fossard : Or, a bend sable [see Mauley]

According to Leland : Mount Ferrant castle stood two miles from Malton in the lordship and parish of Birdsall. It is now clearly defaced and bushed now grow where it stood. This castle some time belonged to the Lord Mauley of which stock there were eight in succession, all by the name of Peter. The last of these Peters left two daughters whereof one was married to Bigod and the other to Salwaine. Bigod had in division Mulgrave with eight townlettes there about and the see cost belonging to it whereof Seton therby was one, he also had Mount Ferrant with Birdsall and Swaledale lordship in Richmondshire with others. Some say that Mount Ferrant was thus thrown down, the second of the Bigods of Settrington, after the death of Bigod (the Earl) Marshall did secretly woo and won the will of one of the Albermarl's daughters Earl of Holderness. Whereupon Albermarl with great indignation, Bigod being absent, assaulted Mount Ferrant, won it and raised it. Yet Bigod after made his peace with Albermarl, and had his daughter by means of intercessor, amongst hwome the Prior of Wotton was the chiefest, to whose house Bigod after for love impropriated the personage (parsonage) of Birdsall. And some say that this Bigod made of the manor of Mulgrave a castle in recompence of Mount Ferrant.

Mulgrave
NZ 840117
Whitby

Tower and Bailey

13th C

Mauley, Bigod, Radcliffe

Mauley : Or, a bend sable. :

Bigod : Or, a cross gules charged with five escollops argent. :

Radcliffe:Argent, a bend engrailed sable charged with a crescent argent for difference.

Leland states : "Mowgreue Castle not far from Whitby sometyme longynge to Bygot." ... And some say that that this Bigod made the manor of Mulgrave a castle in recompence of Mount Ferrant (which see). Mulgrave castle standeth on a craggy hill and on each side of it is a hill higher than that whereupon the castle standeth on.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Square keep inside ward with round angle turrets added c.1300. All rather flimsy and cement poor. Mentioned as ruinous in 1309. Taken in ECW.

 

Text compiled and edited by Richard Hayton

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