Castles and forts in North Yorkshire
The Discover Alone map has 92 castles and forts in North Yorkshire, England. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Whorlton CastleCastleWhorlton Castle is a ruined medieval fortification built in the early 12th century on a ridge overlooking the road…
Upsall CastleCastleUpsall Castle rose in 1327 when Geoffrey Scrope began a quadrangular fortress that later fell into ruin and rebirth as…
Thirsk CastleArchaeological placeThirsk Castle was a four-acre fortress that commanded the road north from York before Henry II ordered its destruction…
Spofforth CastleCastleSpofforth Castle rose from an Anglo-Saxon manor into a double-storey stone hall where the de Percy family may have…
South Cowton CastleCastleSouth Cowton Castle rose around 1470 as a private fortress for Sir Richard Conyers, guarding a valley where royal wars…
Slingsby CastleScheduled monumentSlingsby Castle is a ruined sixteenth-century fortress near Slingsby in North Yorkshire, built by Sir Charles Cavendish…
Sigston CastleRuinsSigston Castle is a two-acre trapezoid of earth and ditch at the base of a North Yorkshire hill, holding a central…
Scarborough CastleCastleWilliam le Gros raised stone walls on the cliff in the 1150s to guard the coast, yet the site had already hosted an…
Richmond CastleCastleRichmond Castle rose from a strong hill above the River Swale in 1071 when Alan Rufus built a Norman fortress to punish…
Ravensworth CastleRuinsRavensworth Castle stands in ruins above Lamesley, North Yorkshire, holding two ancient towers inside a later house. It…
Pickering CastleCastlePickering Castle rose from earth and timber in 1069 when William the Conqueror sought to break northern resistance…
Old Mulgrave Castle: an enclosure castle incorporated into an 18th century planned landscapeScheduled monumentOld Mulgrave Castle is an enclosure castle in North Yorkshire that an 18th century planned landscape absorbed rather…
Neville CastleCastleNeville Castle stood at the south-eastern edge of Manor Vale as a spacious hunting lodge for the Neville family…
Medieval royal hunting lodge known as John of Gaunt's Castle, immediately north west of Haverah Park TopScheduled monumentJohn of Gaunt's Castle stands north west of Haverah Park Top as a scheduled monument, marking a medieval royal hunting…
Maiden CastleArchaeological placeMaiden Castle is the largest Iron Age hillfort in Britain, occupying nineteen hectares of Dorset hilltop where…
Kyme CastleArchaeological placeKyme Castle was a fortified manor possibly founded by the de Kyme family in the 13th century and strengthened by the…
Knaresborough CastleScheduled monumentKnaresborough Castle stands as a ruined fortress above the River Nidd, built around 1100 and rebuilt by Edward I…
Hutton Conyers CastleArchaeological placeHutton Conyers Castle survives only as a buried shape in North Yorkshire, stripping the place from proud memory and…
Great TowerCastleGreat Tower is a castle in North Yorkshire, England. Perhaps its stones still hold the shape of hands that built it…
Foss CastleCastleFoss Castle is a large ditched motte with a bailey area to the east grown over by woodland and overlooking steep cliffs…
Cropton Hall Garth: a motte and bailey castle including later medieval manor house, a medieval trackway and a pondScheduled monumentCropton Hall Garth in North Yorkshire holds a motte and bailey castle, a later medieval manor house, a trackway and a…
Cawood Castle and Castle Garth: residence of the medieval Archbishops of York and associated enclosure containing gardens, five fishponds and a quarry pitScheduled monumentParliament killed Cawood Castle in 1648, but Castle Garth still holds five fishponds and garden earthworks from the…
Cawood CastleCastleCawood Castle in North Yorkshire survived the English Civil War only as a gatehouse and banqueting hall after soldiers…
Castleton castle moundScheduled monumentMosaic global architecture distills into a visible chamber where separate facts form one structure. The claimant…
Castle Dykes HengeScheduled monumentCastle Dykes Henge is a Class I henge earthwork in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, between Aysgarth…
Castle Dikes defended Roman villaScheduled monumentCastle Dikes defended Roman villa stands in North Yorkshire as a scheduled monument, marking a place where Roman hands…
Burwen Castle (Roman fort)Archaeological placeBurwen Castle stands as a Roman fort in North Yorkshire, its stones buried beneath grass and time. Soldiers may have…
Burton Castle (site of)CastleBurton Castle has vanished from human memory, leaving only a coordinate in North Yorkshire and a shape on a public map.…
Bolton CastleScheduled monumentBolton Castle stands in North Yorkshire as the highest walled house Sir Francis Knollys ever saw, built between 1378…
John of Gaunts CastleRuinsJohn of Gaunts Castle is a ruins in North Yorkshire, England. Perhaps the royal hunting lodge echoed with hounds and…
Ravensworth Castle GatehouseCastleMnemo knows Ravensworth Castle Gatehouse as a castle in North Yorkshire, England. It stands on the public map, waiting…- Whorlton Castle: a motte and bailey and tower house with associated garden, earthworks, ponds, park pale, field system, deserted village and churchScheduled monumentWhorlton Castle is a Norman motte and bailey in North Yorkshire that grew into a tower house stronghold, anchoring a…
- Upsall Castle: a quadrangular castleScheduled monumentUpsall Castle is a quadrangular castle in North Yorkshire, built during the medieval period as a substantial fortified…
- Thirsk Castle: a motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentThirsk Castle was a Norman motte and bailey built after 1066, its tall earthwork rising above North Yorkshire to…
- Tadcaster motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentMentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book, Tadcaster castle anchored the Norman claim to Yorkshire. Its earthwork still…
- Spofforth Castle magnates' residenceScheduled monumentSpofforth Castle magnates' residence stands in North Yorkshire as a scheduled monument, marked on the official heritage…
- Sneaton Castle CentreCastleSneaton Castle Centre occupies a former school on Castle Road in Whitby, serving education, recreation and community…
- Snape Castle, the chapel and ruined portionsScheduled monumentSnape Castle in North Yorkshire stands as a scheduled monument, preserving its chapel and ruined portions beneath…
- Site of Malton CastleScheduled monumentMalton Castle stands as a scheduled monument in North Yorkshire, marked only by a point on an official list rather than…
- Sigston Castle: an enclosure castle 400m north of Kirby Sigston churchScheduled monumentSigston Castle is an enclosure castle 400m north of Kirby Sigston church. The National Heritage List for England…
- Sheriff Hutton quadrangular castle and early garden earthworksScheduled monumentSheriff Hutton quadrangular castle and early garden earthworks preserve a late fourteenth century Neville stronghold…
- Scarborough Castle: Iron Age settlement, Roman signal station, Anglo-Scandinavian settlement and chapel, C12 enclosure castle and C18 batteryScheduled monumentScarborough Castle stacks five eras on one clifftop, from an Iron Age settlement to an eighteenth-century gun battery.…
- Saxton Castle: a motte and bailey castle with a later medieval manor house and field system including a trackway and fishpondScheduled monumentSaxton Castle in North Yorkshire began as a motte and bailey stronghold before transforming into a later medieval manor…
- Rougemont Castle ringwork and bailey and associated fishponds and outworkScheduled monumentFive centuries of forgotten life still shadow the soil at Rougemont Castle, where a medieval ringwork and bailey…
- Roman road near Hazelwood CastleScheduled monumentHazelwood Castle stands beside a Roman road in North Yorkshire, marked as a scheduled monument. The road cut through…
- Richmond Castle: eleventh to fourteenth century enclosure castleScheduled monumentRichmond Castle in North Yorkshire, England, stands as an eleventh to fourteenth century enclosure castle, marked as a…
- Ravensworth motte and bailey castle, water defence features, park pale and shrunken medieval villageScheduled monumentRavensworth is a Norman castle where a tall motte rises above a bailey, using water and earth to keep intruders at a…
- Pickering Castle: 11th century motte and bailey castle and 13th century shell keep castleScheduled monumentPickering Castle is a substantial motte and bailey fortification established in the late eleventh century in North…
- Neville Castle, 430m north west of the parish churchScheduled monumentNeville Castle stands as a Norman motte-and-bailey fortification, its earthworks marking the decade after the Conquest…
- Mount Ferrant: a motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentMount Ferrant is a twelfth-century motte and bailey castle on a steep natural headland in North Yorkshire. Its timber…
- Motte and bailey castle south of ScotlandScheduled monumentMotte and bailey castle south of Scotland stands in North Yorkshire as a scheduled monument, marked only by a point on…
- Motte and bailey castle, known as Mowbray Castle, east of Kirkby MalzeardScheduled monumentMowbray Castle east of Kirkby Malzeard is a scheduled motte and bailey in North Yorkshire. Its earthworks still mark…
- Motte and Bailey castle and site of a bishops' palaceScheduled monumentMotte and Bailey castle and site of a bishops' palace stands in North Yorkshire, England, recorded as a scheduled…
- Motte and bailey castle and medieval settlement earthworks within Hall GarthScheduled monumentMotte and bailey castle and medieval settlement earthworks within Hall Garth stands in North Yorkshire, England. The…
- Money Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentMoney Hill rises in North Yorkshire as a scheduled monument, marking a vanished castle where earth and power once…
- Moated site known as Vivers Hill Castle, 300m north east of the parish churchScheduled monumentVivers Hill Castle stands as a scheduled monument thirty metres north east of the parish church, marking a buried or…
- Middleham Castle: twelfth century tower, keep, castle and fourteenth century concentric castle.Scheduled monumentMiddleham Castle is a substantial Yorkshire fortress built in two distinct phases, beginning with a large…
- Marmion Tower (former gatehouse of Tanfield Castle fortified manor)Scheduled monumentMarmion Tower stands in North Yorkshire as the surviving gatehouse of Tanfield Castle, a fortified manor whose defences…
- Maiden Castle prehistoric defended settlement and adjacent round barrowScheduled monumentMaiden Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in North Yorkshire where heavy earthworks still mark the edge of a community that…
- Maiden Bower and Cock Lodge: a motte and bailey castle, moated site, windmill mound and associated linear outworkScheduled monumentMaiden Bower and Cock Lodge in North Yorkshire holds a motte and bailey castle, a moated site, a windmill mound and a…