Hornby Castle, Lancashire

In the civil parish of Hornby With Farleton.
In the historic county of Lancashire (Modern Authority of Lancashire, 1974 county of Lancashire).

Hornby Castle is a large house which includes C13 keep, rebuilt early C16, of the former medieval castle on whose foundations the present house stands. The house has an early C18 south-west front which was completely remodelled in a domestic Gothic style in 1849-52 by Sharpe and Paley, with further alterations and additions in 1881 and 1889-91 by Paley and Austin. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with slate roofs and is on an irregular plan, with a broad entrance front behind which lies the hall, and a tepered courtyard behind containing the keep and enclosed by a further tower.

This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SD58756858

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 561

• Web site links
  • http://www.lancshalls.co.uk/Lancaster/hornbycastle.htm
    http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/heritage/castle/hornby.asp
    http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/heritage/locations/hornby.asp
• Books
  • Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Lancashire and Cheshire (Malvern) p27
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p134-5
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p246
    Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p244
    Gibson, Leslie Irving, 1977, Lancashire Castles and Towers (Dalesman Books)
    Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
    Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1969, Lancashire, 2. The rural north (Harmondsworth) p147
    Farrer, William and Brownbill, J. (eds), 1914, VCH Lancaster Vol8 p196-198
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Fishwick, 1907, in Fishwick and Ditchfield (eds), Memorials of Old Lancashire Vol2 p12-14
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p190-4
    Baines, 1870, History of Lancashire Vol2 p616-17
    Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p152
• Journal Articles
  • Thompson, M.W., 1986, 'Associated monasteries and castles in the Middle Ages: a tentative list' Archaeological Journal Vol143 p313
    White, A J, 1985-6, 'Some Notes on Medieval Hornby' Contrebis Vol12 p1-7
    Fishwick, H., 1901, 'The Old Castles of Lancashire.' Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Vol19 p68-70
    Roper, W.O., 1889, 'Hornby Castle' Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Vol41 p105-126 [illus]
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/durhameng.html#lancs21]
    Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p271, 272