Thurland Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Thusland; Thorslond; Fyrrelande

In the civil parish of Cantsfield.
In the historic county of Lancashire (Modern Authority of Lancashire, 1974 county of Lancashire).

Castle, originally built in C14, licence to crenellate of 1402 granted to Sir Thomas Tunstall and destroyed in a siege of 1643. The remains are incorporated in C19 rebuild (reusing much original material) of the castle.

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.

listed building

Images of England

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SD61087307

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 44049

Web site links

http://www.thurland-castle.co.uk/
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/heritage/castle/thurland.asp

Books

Salter, Mike, 2002, Index and Amendments to Mike Salter's English Castles Books (Malvern) p10
Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Lancashire and Cheshire (Malvern) p38
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p136 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p247
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p263
Gibson, Leslie Irving, 1977, Lancashire Castles and Towers (Dalesman Books)
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1969, Lancashire, 2. The rural north (Harmondsworth) p249 [important for the character of the masonry]
Farrer, William and Brownbill, J. (eds), 1914, VCH Lancaster Vol8 p235-7
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Gardner, 1908, in Farrer, William and Brownbill, J. (eds), VCH Lancaster Vol2 p551
Fishwick, 1907, in Fishwick and Ditchfield (eds), Memorials of Old Lancashire Vol2 p11-12
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p203-5
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p217, 421

Journal Articles

Fishwick, H., 1901, 'The Old Castles of Lancashire.' Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Vol19 p67-8

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 (1402-5) p164

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) p272

Most of the sites or buildings recorded in this web site are NOT open to the public and permission to visit a site must always be sought from the landowner or tenant

The information on this web page may be derived from information compiled by and/or copyright of English Heritage and other individuals and organisations.

It is an offence to disturb a Scheduled Monument without consent. It is a destruction of everyone's heritage to remove archaeological evidence from any site without proper recording and reporting. Don't use metal detectors on historic sites without authorisation.

Please help me to make this as useful a resource as possible by contacting me if you see errors or if you can add information.
I do acknowledge the help I get with this site.

*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.

¤¤¤¤¤