What is recorded here

Staward Peel rose in Northumberland when Anthony de Lucy built a timber defence in 1316, but Thomas II de Featherstonehaugh later replaced it with a larger stone castle. The structure passed through dukes, priory rents and royal gifts before George Bacon bought it in 1664, yet human ambition could not stop decay. Demolition removed most of the building before 1856, leaving only gatehouse fragments, a ditch and earthworks for the wind to erode.

Staward Peel is shown as a castle on the public map of Northumberland. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Staward Peel was built by the Staward family in the 13th or 14th century as a defensive tower house in northern England. It is remembered as an example of medieval peel towers used for local protection during border conflicts between England and Scotland.

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