Castles and forts in Westmorland and Furness
The Discover Alone map has 53 castles and forts in Westmorland and Furness, England. Below are the 52 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Piel CastleScheduled monumentPiel Castle is a ruined concentric fortress on Piel Island, built around 1327 by John Cockerham to guard Furness Abbey…
Pendragon CastleScheduled monumentPendragon Castle is a ruined Norman stronghold above the River Eden in Westmorland and Furness, built in the 12th…
Maiden CastleArchaeological placeMaiden Castle is the largest Iron Age hill fort in Britain, spanning forty-seven acres of Dorset chalk. Around 450 BC…
Kendal CastleCastleKendal Castle is a 13th-century ruin on a steep hill above Kendal, built for the Barony of Kendal and later owned by…
Greenside lime kiln 480m west of Castle HoweScheduled monumentGreenside lime kiln 480m west of Castle Howe stands as a scheduled monument in Westmorland and Furness, England. The…
Dalton CastleScheduled monumentDalton Castle is a fourteenth-century peel tower built by Furness Abbey monks to shelter records and people during…
Croglam CastleArchaeological placeCroglam Castle is a defended Iron Age hillfort in Westmorland, its banks and ditches still marking the boundary of a…
Crake Trees tower houseScheduled monumentCrake Trees tower house stands in Westmorland and Furness as a scheduled monument, marked only by a point on an…
Castlehaw (Motte & Bailey)Archaeological placeCastlehaw (Motte & Bailey) still holds the shape of a defensible home in Westmorland and Furness. A raised mound and…
castleArchaeological placeCastle appears on the public map of Westmorland and Furness as an archaeological place, though no building or boundary…
Castle Howe motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentCastle Howe stands in Westmorland and Furness as a scheduled monument, preserving the earthwork memory of a motte and…
Castle HillScheduled monumentCastle Hill is a scheduled monument in Westmorland and Furness, England, recorded on the National Heritage List. The…
Castle FoldsArchaeological placeCastle Folds stood as a Romano-British walled settlement on the limestone pavement of Great Asby Scar, where eight-foot…
Brougham HallCastleBrougham Hall is a layered castle house where a thirteenth-century gateway still stands beside rooms enlarged for Henry…
Brougham CastleCastleBrougham Castle stands in ruined sandstone above the meeting of the Eamont and Lowther, occupying the northern edge of…
Brough CastleCastleBrough Castle stands as a ruined keep inside the old Roman fort of Verterae, where William Rufus built a timber defence…
Maiden Castle FortArchaeological placeMaiden Castle Fort stands in Westmorland and Furness as an archaeological place, its buried lines waiting for patience…- Waitby Castle enclosed Romano-British settlement and part of a medieval dykeScheduled monumentWaitby Castle is an enclosed Romano-British settlement and part of a medieval dyke in Westmorland and Furness, England.…
- Strickland's Pele Tower and Penrith CastleScheduled monumentStrickland's Pele Tower and Penrith Castle stand in Westmorland and Furness as a scheduled monument, marked only by a…
- Settlement 1/3 mile (540m) ENE of Brougham CastleScheduled monumentHalf a mile east of Brougham Castle, a forgotten settlement waits beneath the grass. It belongs to the official list of…
- Round cairn 450m south-east of Castle FoldsScheduled monumentAn unspoken human life may have touched that stone before it became a landmark, adding warmth to the cold fact of its…
- Round barrow 1/4 mile (400m) N of Lammerside CastleScheduled monumentNo visible mound remains at that point, only a hidden chamber of dead people and the risk that curiosity will erase…
- Roper Castle Roman signal station, on the eastern flank of Moudy Mea, 700m south of Summit ReservoirScheduled monumentMoudy Mea still holds the shape of Roman authority because Roper Castle remains a scheduled monument on its eastern…
- Roper Castle or Round Table (Roman Signal Station)Archaeological placeRoman soldiers watched the valley from Roper Castle, sending fire or smoke across dark hills while men below forgot the…
- Moated site of Dacre CastleScheduled monumentDacre Castle stands as a moated site in Westmorland and Furness, preserved as a scheduled monument rather than an open…
- Moat Hill, motte and bailey castle and earlier ringworkScheduled monumentMoat Hill in Westmorland and Furness is a scheduled monument preserving a motte and bailey castle built above an…
- Maiden Castle univallate prehistoric defended enclosureScheduled monumentMaiden Castle is a univallate Iron Age defended enclosure in Cumberland, built with one bank and one ditch rather than…
- Maiden Castle near BroughScheduled monumentMaiden Castle near Brough stands as a scheduled monument in Westmorland and Furness, though no visible ruin may remain…
- Lammerside Castle medieval tower houseScheduled monumentLammerside Castle is a medieval tower house in Westmorland and Furness, not a fantasy palace invented for modern eyes.…
- Kirkoswald Castle moated siteScheduled monumentKirkoswald Castle stands as a moated scheduled monument in Westmorland and Furness, marked by water-cut defenses that…
- Kendal Castle and associated earthworks, and earlier ringworkScheduled monumentKendal Castle and its earthworks stand in Westmorland and Furness as a scheduled monument, preserving layers of defence…
- Intake Bottom settlement enclosure and hut circle, 500m WSW of Croglam CastleScheduled monumentIntake Bottom settlement enclosure and hut circle, 500m WSW of Croglam Castle is a scheduled monument in Westmorland…
- High Head CastleCastleHigh Head Castle stands between Carlisle and Penrith as a ruined Georgian house built above a medieval king’s castle…
- Hartley Castle and associated earthworksScheduled monumentHartley Castle and its earthworks stand as a scheduled monument in Westmorland and Furness, marked only by a point on a…
- Enclosure castle known as Gleaston CastleScheduled monumentGleaston Castle is a fourteenth-century stone enclosure built by the de Harrington family near Dalton-in-Furness. Its…
- Croglam Castle defended Iron Age settlementScheduled monumentCroglam Castle is a defended Iron Age settlement in Westmorland and Furness, still marked as a scheduled monument…
- Cockpit Hill, medieval motte castleScheduled monumentCockpit Hill is a substantial earthwork mound built during the Norman settlement of the North West, preserving the…
- Catterlen Hall tower houseScheduled monumentCatterlen Hall tower house is a late medieval fortified residence in Cumberland, built with thick stone walls and a…
- Castlehaw Tower, motte and bailey castle and Royal Observer Corps monitoring postScheduled monumentCastlehaw Tower stands in Westmorland and Furness as a scheduled monument, preserving both a motte and bailey castle…
- Castle KnoweArchaeological placeCastle Knowe rises beside the Kilruskin Toll Road as a rounded mound that may have guarded the long road between…
- Castle HoweArchaeological placeCastle Howe is an archaeological place in Westmorland and Furness, but no visible ruin, date or function is recorded.…
- Castle Howe motte and baileyScheduled monumentCastle Howe is a Norman motte and bailey on the southern bank of the River Lune, its earthworks still standing despite…
- Castle Howe hillfort, Little LangdaleScheduled monumentCastle Howe hillfort stands in Little Langdale as a scheduled monument, marked only by a point on an official list…
- Castle Howe HillfortArchaeological placeCastle Howe Hillfort stands in Westmorland and Furness, England, a marked archaeological place where ancient hands may…
- Castle Head hill fortArchaeological placeCastle Head hill fort stands in Westmorland and Furness, a rocky ridge where human hands shaped the land before written…
- Castle Folds Romano-British defended stone hut circle settlement and medieval shielingScheduled monumentCastle Folds sits atop a knife-edged limestone knoll near Great Asby Scar, where a thick rubble wall and inaccessible…
- Castle Crag slight univallate hillfortScheduled monumentCastle Crag slight univallate hillfort stands in Westmorland and Furness as a scheduled monument. The earthwork may…
- Brougham Roman fort (Brocavum) and civil settlement and Brougham CastleScheduled monumentBrougham Roman fort and castle stand together in Westmorland, marking a rare place where Roman military life and later…
- Brough Castle and Brough (Verteris) Roman fort and civil settlementScheduled monumentVerteris, the Roman name for Brough, marks a military fort and civil settlement where Brough Castle later rose. The…
- Blencow Old Hall moated tower houseScheduled monumentBlencow Old Hall stands as a scheduled monument in Westmorland and Furness, preserving the footprint of a moated tower…
- Bewley Castle, CrackenthorpeScheduled monumentBewley Castle is a fourteenth-century pele tower near Crackenthorpe, built when Border raids made sturdy stone walls a…
- Appleby Castle, uninhabited portionsScheduled monumentAppleby Castle rose in the late twelfth century when Ranulf de Mesburne forced stone and earth into a weapon against…