Kildale Hall Garth

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

Alleged motte rejected by King as a natural hillock with no defences. History given in Illingworth. Salter describes excavation in 1961 finding ashlar walls on summit of motte. Area has been altered by railway cutting. Location entirely consistant with a motte. Jackson also reports this as a castle. However, on 1856 6" OS it is marked as moat and Jean le Patourel describes in his gazetteer as 'Percy manor partly excavated by R. Close showing heavy masonry and tracery in upper levels. moat revetted. On natural rise. House on island.' A castle of the Percies recorded at Kildare by Camden. It's difficult to see an alternative site for the Percy castle, unless Easby Motte (qv)

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

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ60330954

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 28045

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p50
Jackson, M.J., 2001, Castles of North Yorkshire (Carlise) p34-5
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p19
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p533 [reject]
Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5) p119
Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield)
Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH York, North Riding Vol2 p249-51
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH York Vol2 p48
Whellan T, 1859, History and Topography of the City of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire Vol2 p744

Journal Articles

1971, Transactions of the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society Vol14
1970, Transactions of the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society Vol13
1969, Transactions of the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society Vol12
1969, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol42 p243
Close, R., 1962/3, 'Medieval Britain in 1961' Medieval Archaeology Vol6-7 p338
I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'The castles of the North Riding' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol22 p357-9

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

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/yorkseng.html#yorks47]

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