What is recorded here

Thirsk Castle was a four-acre fortress that commanded the road north from York before Henry II ordered its destruction in 1176. Its stones may have been carried to build the local church, turning a ruined home into a house of worship. The de Mowbray family lost the castle during a revolt, yet they kept the land until a Scots raid destroyed the later manor in 1322. What remains is a long buried rampart and a wide ditch, waiting beneath the town for someone to imagine the shape of what vanished.

Thirsk Castle is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of North Yorkshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

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