Fortified Manor

15th C

Metcalf

Argent, three calves passant, two and one, sable

According tot Leland, "Syr James Metcalf hath a very goodly howse callid Nappe...

Newbiggin Hall
NR
Whitby

Manor

Mauleys of Mulgarve

Newton (Garth)
ER
TA 179269
Hedon

Manor

Earls of Albermarl

Leland states : The earl of Albermarl and Holderness was the lord of Hedon and also of Skipton in Craven at the same time, this earl had a great manor place at Newton, a mile beneath Hedon, nearer to the Humber than it (Hedon) for it standeth on the lower side of the creek (Hedon Haven), and Hedon on the upper. There be two chantry priests founded by the Albermarls at Newton.

Le Patourel : The Moated Sites of Yorkshire states that Newton Garth at TA 179269 was the site of St. Mary Magdelen's leper hospital with moats traceable on three side of the site. This might be the moated garden of the manor house. The chantry priests fit in with the religious holding of the site.

North Deighton
SE 394517
Wetherby

Motte

North Duffield
ER
SE 692373
Selby

Castellanium Anglicanum : Traces of a possible castle

Northallerton
SE 362942

Motte and Bailey

12th C

Hugh Pudsay, Bishopric of Durham

Pudsay : Per saltire or and argent, a cross formee azure. :

Durham : Azure, a cross or between four lions passant argent

According to Leland : At the west side of Northallerton, a little from the church is the Bishop of Durham's palace, strong of building and well moated. And a two flight shots west-north-west from it be the ditches and the dungeon hill where the castle

Alverton (Allerton) sometime stood. No part of the walls thereof now appeareth.

Built 1142, destroyed 1176, very little remains.

Northallerton Number 2
NR
SE 365940

Successor to above

Motte & Bailey

12th C.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Motte and angular bailey, probably built before 1200. Refortified as a peel (sic) (wooden fortification) in 1314.

Otley
WR

Mansion

Archbishops of York

Paul Fort
TA 169255
Holderness

Artillery Fort

18th C

Crown

Old Paull Battery, rebuilt to replace the earlier fort in 1807, dismantled in 1820. The present buildings were built in 1861-4 then remodelled once more in 1894. [Pevsner] 19th and 20th century fort. A large fort with brick walls and massive earthwork fortifications possibly Napoleonic in origin, used during the Second World War.

Paull Fort Number 2
TA 170255
Holderness

Artillery Fort

16th/17th

The first gun battery was established to the south of the village in 1542. [Pevsner] Civil War fort demolished "by the ships of war on the Humber" in 1642 (Sheahan) There is no trace on the ground, but the location of the above seems to be the obvious position

Paul-holme
ER
TA 185249
Holderness

Fortified Manor

Holme : Barry of six or and azure, on a canton argent, a chaplet gules studded with four cinqufoils of the first .

Paul-holme Number 2
Holderness

Possible Motte

This was succeeded by the above

Pickering
SE 800845

Motte and Bailey

12th C

Crown, Edmund Earl of Lancaster, Crown

Edmund of Lancaster : England, a label of four points azure. :

Henry of Lancaster: England a label of three points azure each point charged with three fleur-de-lis or

Leland states : "The castle standeth in an end of the town not far from the parish church on the brow of a hill, under the which a brook runneth. In the first court of it be four towers of the which one is called Rosamund's tower. In the inner court be also four towers whereof the keep is one. The castle walls and the toweres be meatly well, the lodgings in the inner court that be of timber be in ruin, in this inner court is a chapel and a chatry priest. the castle hath of a good continuance with the town and the lordship belonged to the Lancaster blood, but who made the castle or who was the owner of it afor the Lancasters I could not learn there. The castle walls now remaining seem to be of no very old building. "

The castle was built to over-look the vast royal forest in the vale which during the period 1100-1400 was of England in order to hunt the wild boar and deer. An earthen mound was thrown up soon after the Conquest on the instructions of William I. When exactly the mound was fortified is uncertain but fortifications existed less than fifty years later. The use of timber as a building material continued until the 14th century. As stone replaced timber, a classic motte and bailey castle with a shell keep raised on top of the mound emerged, but by then that style of castle construction was outdated. The whole was defended by an elaborate system of ditches, all well preserved, as is what remains of the masonry. In 1267 Pickering was granted to Edmund Earl of Lancaster, who bore the arms, England, a label of three points each charged with three fleur-de-lis or. The castle remained with the Lancasters until the confiscation of the properties of John o'Gaunt Duke of Lancaster, by Richard II. It was to Pickering that Gaunt's son, Bolingbroke, made on his return from exile to claim his father's estates. It resulted with the abdication of Richard who might have been imprisoned at Pickering for a short time prior to his murder at Pontefract and the subsequent enthronement of Henry IV. Henry created his son Henry of Monmouth Duke of Lancaster and when he ascended the throne as Henry V in 1413, so was Pickering returned to the Crown. By the time of the visit by John Leland in the 1530's the castle was already ruinous.

Pickering Number 2
SE 793845

Possible siege castle

Pickhill
SE 346838
Richmond

Motte and Bailey

Plumpton
WR

Manor House

Plumpton-held of Percy

Pontefract
SE 460224

Motte and Bailey

11th C

Ilbert de Lacy, Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster, Crown

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

Thomas Earl of Lancaster:England, a bendlet azure.

Leland states : The castle of Pontefract, of some called Snorre castle containeth eight towers of which the dundeon (keep) cast into six roundells, three big and three small, is very fair and hath a fair spring. King William Conqueror gave the castle with the town of Broken-Bridge, and very much land lying thereabouts to Hilbert de Laceio.

Castellarium Anglicanum : Very powerful castle on point of a ridge, cut off by a great ditch. Strongly walled, mostly at various dates in 14^th and 15^th centuries, with outer side of the motte revetted to make a cluster of round towers, forming a very strong keep.

Little remains today after two sieges during ECW, the castle was totally reduced.

Portington
SE 787308
Goole

Moated enclosure ~fortified Manor?

11th C

Rectangular wet ditch with house on the island, may or may not have been defensive.

Quarnby
WR
Huddersfield

Fortified Manor?

Rastrick

Motte

de Warrene, Hanson

de Warenne : Chequy or and azure. :

Hanson : Or, a chevron counter company argent and azure.

Ravensworth
Enclosure
NZ 141076

14^thC remains of quadrangular castle of the northern type, some masonry remains and a gatehouse, on the site of earlier earth-works.

No records of the foundation of the castle, but it remained in the FitzHugh family from the start to the 16th C.

Leland states : ''the castle excepting two or three towers, and a faire stable, with a conduct coming to the hall side, had no thing memorable.' This suggests that the castle was by the 16^th C, ruinous.

FitzHugh

Parr

Rawdon
WR

Manor House

Rawden earls of Moira

11thc?

Riccall
SE 616381
Selby

Demesne manor

13thC

Wormley

Wormley : Gules, on a chief indented argent, three lions rampant sable

Richmond

Enclosure/Tower

14th C

FitzHugh, Parr

FitzHugh : Azure, fretty and a chief or. :

Parr : Argent, two bars azure within a bordure engrailed sable

According to Leland, "Ravenswathe Castle in a mares ground and a parke on a litle hilling ground by it. The Lorde Parre is the owner therof......" The castle excepting two or three sqare towers ad a fair stable with a conduct comming to the hallside, hath nothing memorable in it."

Some 11^th C, though maintained and occupied throughout the Middle ages.

Richmond

Fortified town defences

14^th C, Smallish area in front of the castle.

Ripley
SE 283605

According to Castellarium Anglicanum and Pevsner, this was never built with defence in mind, it is purely a domestic residence dating from 1555.

Ripon (Ailey Hill)
SE 316711

Motte

Badly mutilated, little known

Ripon Number 2
SE 302737

Tower

Risby
TA 006351
Hull

Fortified Manor

13th C

Rise
TA 146417
Holderness

Possible Motte

FAuconberg, Bethell

Roos
TA 290295
Holderness

Moated enclosure

Ros

To the south of the church are the earth works of the medieval manor house or castle of the Ros family [Pevsner]

Le Patourel : sloping to carrs to south. Traces of stone walls.

Rotherham (Kimberworth)
SK 405035

Probable Motte & Bailey

Rothwell
SE 342283
Leeds

Traces, little known, uncertain.

Rylestone (Norton Tower)
SD 976571
Skipton

Tower

Text compiled and edited by Richard Hayton

Heraldry rendered by Richard Hayton