Castles and forts in Northumberland
The Discover Alone map has 96 castles and forts in Northumberland, 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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Widdrington Castle and 18th century Gothic castle and gardens south of Widdrington FarmScheduled monumentWiddrington Castle and 18th century Gothic castle and gardens south of Widdrington Farm is a scheduled monument in…
Whitley CastleArchaeological placeWhitley Castle is a Roman fort in Northumberland where the Reverend John Wallis was born in 1713 and later wrote the…
Warkworth CastleCastleWarkworth Castle crouches at the narrow neck of a River Coquet loop, guarding the village below with stone walls that…
Wark CastleArchaeological placeWark Castle rose as a six sided keep beside the Tweed, built by Walter Espec under King Henry I in the early 12th…
Warden HillFortWarden Hill is a fort in Northumberland, England. Perhaps soldiers marched its grass in centuries now lost, their boots…
VercoviciumFortVercovicium stands as Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, built in stone around AD 124 to hold…
Thirlwall CastleScheduled monumentThirlwall Castle is a 12th-century stronghold on the River Tipalt whose walls were reinforced with stones taken from…
Staward PeelCastleStaward Peel rose in Northumberland when Anthony de Lucy built a timber defence in 1316, but Thomas II de…
Standing stone, 770m south-east of Swinburne CastleScheduled monumentThat is a standing stone, not a castle chamber or hidden room. It stands 770m south-east of Swinburne Castle in….jpg?width=1280)
Seaton Delaval HallCastleSeaton Delaval Hall is a ruined castle in Northumberland, built 1718-1728 for Admiral George Delaval by Sir John…
Overgrass tower house 150m south east of Newmoor HallScheduled monumentOvergrass tower house stands fifteen hundred metres south east of Newmoor Hall, a scheduled monument in Northumberland.…
Motte and bailey castle on Haw HillScheduled monumentHaw Hill in Northumberland still carries a motte and bailey castle, marked as a scheduled monument though no visible…
Morpeth CastleScheduled monumentMorpeth Castle began as a Norman stronghold before becoming a grand gatehouse for the Greystoke family, who used its…
Moot HallCastleMoot Hall is a castle in Northumberland, England. Perhaps its walls still hold the shape of hands that built them…
Mitford CastleRuinsMitford Castle is a ruined motte and bailey above the River Wansbeck, built for the Bertram family after the Norman…_Milecastle_29_-_Tower_Tye_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1129286.jpg?width=1280)
Milecastle 29 (Tower Tye)Archaeological placeTower Tye marks the twenty-ninth milecastle segment in Northumberland, a small military checkpoint along a long border…_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3215625.jpg?width=1280)
Milecastle 39 (Castle Nick)Archaeological placeCastle Nick marks the thirty-ninth milecastle on the northern border. It is a small military checkpoint where the road…
Medieval church and graveyard 330m north west of Berwick CastleScheduled monumentThirty-three metres north west of Berwick Castle, a medieval church and graveyard still belong to the land. The…
Haggerston Castle TowerCastleHaggerston Castle Tower still stands in Northumberland, a stone marker of martial ambition rather than a polished…
Green CastleArchaeological placeGreen Castle is an archaeological place in Northumberland, England, where buried walls and forgotten rooms wait beneath…
Great Tosson tower houseScheduled monumentGreat Tosson tower house stands in Northumberland as a scheduled monument, though the name and location offer no…
Etal CastleCastleEtal Castle rose from a timber hall into a crenellated tower house because the Manners family kept losing ground to…
Edlingham CastleCastleEdlingham Castle is a 13th-century ruined fortified castle in Northumberland, England, built in 1174 by John De…
Dunstanburgh Castle: Romano-British settlement, 14th century enclosure castle and harbour, and World War II pillbox and foxholeScheduled monumentDunstanburgh Castle is a 14th-century fortress and harbour built by Thomas of Lancaster in 1313 on a Northumberland…
Dilston Castle (remains)RuinsDilston Castle lies broken in Northumberland, its stones scattered across the land like a forgotten sentence. The…
Dilston CastleScheduled monumentDilston Castle is a three-storey ruined tower house built by Sir William Claxton in the 15th century on the south bank…
Castra VindolandaFortCastra Vindolanda is a fort in Northumberland, England, dated to 4C. The name and place are clear even though the saved…
Bywell CastleCastleBywell Castle stands incomplete beside the River Tyne because the Neville family stopped building in 1430, leaving a…
Bothal CastleCastleBothal Castle stands beside the River Wansbeck as a medieval gate tower and surviving curtain wall, transformed from a…
Aydon CastleCastleAydon Castle rose from a wooden hall into a stone fortress on a Northumberland bluff, built by Robert de Raymes to…
Starlight CastleArchaeological placeStarlight Castle appears on the public map of Northumberland as an archaeological place dated from 1750. The name…
Castle HillArchaeological placeCastle Hill in Northumberland, England is an archaeological place, but no unique feature, date or owner is recorded. It…
Unknown wreck, 600m ENE of Bamburgh CastleScheduled monumentUnknown wreck, 600m ENE of Bamburgh Castle is a scheduled monument in Northumberland, England. The official record…
castleArchaeological placeCastle stands in Northumberland, England, marked as an archaeological place rather than a named building. The land may…
Cornhill CastleScheduled monumentHalf a mile west of the A69, a low mound still holds the shadow of a castle that stopped being a home long before maps…- Whitley Castle Roman fort and vicus, 280m south west of Castle NookScheduled monumentWhitley Castle Roman fort and vicus, 280m south west of Castle Nook is a first and second century AD military…
- Welton tower houseScheduled monumentWelton tower house stands in Northumberland as a scheduled monument, marked only by a point on an official list rather…
- Warkworth Castle motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle and collegiate churchScheduled monumentWarkworth Castle crouches on a River Coquet bend, layering an early twelfth-century motte and bailey beneath stone…
- Warkworth Castle hermitageScheduled monumentWarkworth Castle hermitage is a fourteenth-century chamber cut into living rock beside the River Coquet. The Percy…
- Wark Castle motte and bailey castle and artillery fortScheduled monumentWark Castle in Northumberland is a scheduled monument, a formal recognition that its earthworks and ruins belong to…
- Univallate hillfort and medieval tower, 750m East of Callaly CastleScheduled monumentUnivallate hillfort and medieval tower, 750m East of Callaly Castle stands as a scheduled monument in Northumberland…
- Two pillboxes near Green CastleScheduled monumentTwo pillboxes near Green Castle stand as a scheduled monument in Northumberland, marking a moment when the land itself…
- Twizel medieval tower house and village, post-medieval folly and gardenScheduled monumentTwizel medieval tower house and village, post-medieval folly and garden stands in Northumberland as a scheduled…
- Tower house in Chillingham Park, 270m north east of Hepburn CottageScheduled monumentTower house in Chillingham Park still stands as a medieval defensive structure in Northumberland, built to watch the…
- Tower house and World War II air raid shelter, 360m east of Biddlestone Home FarmScheduled monumentMortal danger has worn this Northumberland earth for centuries. Medieval borders sharpened the tower into a knife-edge…
- Simonburn Castle tower houseScheduled monumentSimonburn Castle is a tower house in Northumberland, built in the fourteenth or fifteenth century when Border families…
- Round cairn, 650m south of Swinburne CastleScheduled monumentRound cairn, 650m south of Swinburne Castle is a scheduled monument in Northumberland, England. The official record…
- Round cairn, 450m SSE of Swinburne CastleScheduled monumentMorchard is a round chamber with a narrow neck, not a shallow cave. The chamber reaches ten metres wide and five metres…
- Prudhoe Castle tower keep castleScheduled monumentPrudhoe Castle is a Norman fortress on the River Tyne in Northumberland, built by the de Umfraville family in the late…
- Ninebanks tower houseScheduled monumentNinebanks tower house is a sixteenth-century fortified residence in Northumberland, built when Border instability…
- Multivallate hillfort, 550m north of Callaly CastleScheduled monumentMystery and wonderment characterize Multivallate hillfort, 550m north of Callaly Castle. The National Heritage List for…
- Motte castle, 170m west of Warden parish churchScheduled monumentMotte castle stands 170m west of Warden parish church in Northumberland, preserved as a scheduled monument. The…
- Motte and bailey castle on Money HillScheduled monumentMoney Hill carries a Norman motte and bailey where conquest turned northern land into a military map. The earthwork…
- Motte and bailey castle and shell keep castle at HarbottleScheduled monumentHarbottle Castle stands in Coquetdale, Northumberland, where a Norman motte and bailey emerged in the early twelfth…
- Mote Hills motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentMote Hills is a Norman motte and bailey castle in Northumberland, built after 1066 to project control across the…
- Moneylaws Castle Hill campScheduled monumentMoneylaws Castle Hill camp is a prehistoric or early medieval fortified settlement in Northumberland, preserved as an…
- Mitford Castle: a motte and bailey and shell keep castle, medieval chapel, graveyard and field systemScheduled monumentMitford Castle in Northumberland stands as a scheduled monument, preserving a motte and bailey, shell keep, medieval…
- Kyloe tower house, East KyloeScheduled monumentKyloe tower house stands in East Kyloe, Northumberland, recorded as a scheduled monument though its walls may still bar…
- Kirkhaugh Bridge abutments 1/2 mile (800m) NE of Whitley CastleScheduled monumentKirkhaugh Bridge abutments stand half a mile northeast of Whitley Castle, marked as a scheduled monument in…
- Kershope CastleScheduled monumentKershope Castle stands in Northumberland as a scheduled monument, though the name suggests more grandeur than the ruins…