What is recorded here

Bolton Castle stands in North Yorkshire as the highest walled house Sir Francis Knollys ever saw, built between 1378 and 1399 for Richard, Lord Scrope of Bolton. Mary, Queen of Scots occupied its south-west tower during six months of imprisonment, while Knollys guarded the single entrance and worried about forged letters. The castle survived royal fire, civil-war damage and centuries of ownership by the Scrope family, keeping its quadrangular shape and tall walls intact.

The National Heritage List for England records Bolton Castle as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Bolton Castle was built in the 14th century by the Clitheroe family, a prominent Lancastrian noble lineage, and later held by the powerful Cavendish family of Chatsworth. It is important as a well-preserved medieval fortress and as a historical site associated with the English Civil War, when it was besieged and damaged by Parliamentary forces.

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