Killerby Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Kilwardby; Kilwardeby; Killarby

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

Remains of stone castle licence to crenellate granted to Brian fitz Alan (III) in 1291. The Castle which stood here, was in ruins in Leland's time, who wrote " Killarby Castil Ruine in Ripaciter Swalae, about a 2 mile south from Keterick." Site of an earlier motte and bailey.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE258960

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 1390628

Books

Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p50
Jackson, M.J., 2001, Castles of North Yorkshire (Carlise) p9-10
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p301 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p519
Page, Wm (ed), 1914, VCH York, North Riding Vol1 p293-4, 303, 306-7
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Yorkshire Vol2 p32
Speight, H., 1897, Romantic Richmondshire p148
Whellan T, 1859, History and Topography of the City of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire Vol2 p360
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p403

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)]
1884, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol8 p99

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 (1281-92) p445

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

Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p564, 572
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol4 p26

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