What is recorded here

Etal Castle is a fourteenth-century tower house built by the Manners family in the Till Valley, where Scottish raiders came and went like weather. Its thick stone walls still stand near the border, a small defiant shape against centuries of conflict. The Manners needed somewhere solid to hold their land, and they gave the valley a marker of authority that has never fully disappeared.

The National Heritage List for England records Etal Castle tower house 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.

Etal Castle tower house was built in the late 14th or early 15th century by the powerful Percy family, likely as a defensive structure in the turbulent Anglo-Scottish border region. It is important as a well-preserved example of a medieval tower house and as a symbol of the Percy influence in Northumberland.

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