Hutton Conyers Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Hutton Hall; Hall Garth

In the civil parish of Hutton Conyers.
In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

Ringwork and bailey, possible site of castle recorded as built by Earl Alan in 1140 and probably destoyed soon after 1154.

This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Earthworks remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE32627352

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 53792

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p49
Jackson, M.J., 2001, Castles of North Yorkshire (Carlise) p33-4 [plan]
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p19
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p519
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker) p208
Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield)
Page, Wm (ed), 1914, VCH York, North Riding Vol1 p403
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Yorkshire Vol2 p48

Journal Articles

Butler, Lawrence, 1992, 'The Origins of the Honour of Richmond and its Castles' Chateau-Gallard Vol16 p69-80 [Reprinted in Liddiard, Robert, (ed), 2003, Anglo-Norman Castles (Woodbridge: Boydell Press)]
I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'The castles of the North Riding' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol22 p356-7

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