Breckenbrough Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Kirby Wiske

In the civil parish of Newsham with Breckenbrough.
In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

Breckenbrough Castle Farm, possibly built on the site of a castle. Air photographs taken in 1999 show a complex of earthworks comprising a series of sub-rectangular enclosures of probable medieval date to the west of the farm. Earthworks immediately to the south of the farm comprising a mound situated at the right angle formed between two banks, may represent later post medieval features, possibly garden features. Marked as site of a Castle of the Lascelles on 1856 OS map. From Bulmer's "The hamlet of Breckenbrough or Breckenborough adjoins Newsham, and was anciently the property of the Lascelles family, one of whom was summoned to parliament among the barons in the 22nd of Edward I., and the following year. They had a castle here in which Sir Thomas Lascelles died in 1619, but every trace of it has disappeared, and its site is now occupied by a farmhouse."

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE37648423

PastScape number; 53880

Books

Jackson, M.J., 2001, Castles of North Yorkshire (Carlise) p91
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p17
Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH York, North Riding Vol2 p176
1890, Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire
Whellan, T., 1857, History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire (T Whellan and Co) Vol2 p539

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p551

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Breckenbrough Castle

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE37648423

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