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Farleton Castle
In the civil parish of Hornby With Farleton.
In the historic county of Lancashire (Modern Authority of Lancashire, 1974 county of Lancashire).
Suggested castle site rejected by King. Farleton supposedly had castle that disappeared after 1600. Salter writes "Excavations on a platform here revealed part of a retaining wall of cut blocks but no buildings or proper moat." Possible fortified manor house and park. In 1479, Sir James Harrington was granted a licence to crenellate his house and enclose and empark all his lands. A later source refers to a castle and park at Farleton, which had fallen into disrepair by C16. The exact site of the manor house is not known but possibly Medieval defensive earthworks comprising of a mound with revetments excavated by G L Shearer in 1956 at SD578669 or Medieval moated site with small moated outwork and connecting channels, surviving as earthworks at SD57206756 (This seems to be the more likely site and from the air photo this looks to be a large square moat.)
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Earthworks remains.
A Royal licence
to crenellate was
granted in 1479 May 26.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SD57206756
PastScape number;
42925, 42923, 42899
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Lancashire and Cheshire (Malvern) p25
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p263
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p250 [reject]
Gibson, Leslie Irving, 1977, Lancashire Castles and Towers (Dalesman Books)
Farrer, William and Brownbill, J. (eds), 1914, VCH Lancaster Vol8 p202
Journal Articles
- 1998, Contrebis Vol23
(Shearer), 1957, Medieval Archaeology Vol1 p157
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls (1476-85) p151
Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
- Matthew Emmott -pers corr writes of the SD57206756 site that the earthworks are well defined and that some small amounts of masonry are visible.
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