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Hood Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; La Hode; Hod
In the civil parish of Kilburn High And Low.
In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).
Small circular enclosure, adapted to the contours of the isolated summit of Hood Hill, approximating to a motte and bailey. It may be the site of Hood Castle. Licence to crenellate was granted in 1264 to John de Eyvill, with provision for a dyke and wall of stone, but the castle may have been constructed originally by Robert de Stuteville (1086-1106) at whose attainder it passed to Henry I. The castle is last mentioned in 1322. Hood was said in 1218 to have been 'built in Newburgh fee after the war began between King John and his barons of England'.
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Masonry Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Earthworks remains.
A Royal licence
to crenellate was
granted in 1264 Aug 20.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE50388141
PastScape number;
57312
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p48
Jackson, M.J., 2001, Castles of North Yorkshire (Carlise) p32
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p518-9
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p402
Journal Articles
- Coulson, C., 1994, 'Freedom to Crenellate by Licence - An Historiographical Revision' Nottingham Medieval Studies Vol38 p95
Coulson, C., 1979, 'Structural Symbolism in Medieval Castle Architecture' Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol132 p85
Whitaker, A.H., 1970, Ryedale Historian Vol5 p36-40
Brown, R, Allen, 1959, 'A List of Castles, 1154–1216' English Historical Review Vol74 [Reprinted in Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles, conquest and charters: collected papers (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p249-280]
I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'The castles of the North Riding' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol22 p356
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 (1258-66) p342
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