Mulgrave Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Mowgreue; Meaulx; Mont-Grace

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

C12 enclosure castle with C13 additions including a gatehouse and late C16 alterations, surrounded by double ditch. Dismantled in 1647. It is an irregular polygon in plan, and has been incorporated into a late C18 planned landscape. All rather flimsy and cement poor. Mentioned as ruinous in1309. Slighted after Civil War siege and now very ruinious.

This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle
Timber Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 327243)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ839116

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 29499

Web site links

http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_north/94/mulgravecastle.htm

Books

Jackson, M.J., 2001, Castles of North Yorkshire (Carlise) p47-50 [plan]
Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p65
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p21
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p293
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p522
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p263
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker) p250
Pevsner, N., 1966. The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, North Riding (London) p260
Kendall, H., 1948, History of the Old Castle of Mulgrave (Hull)
Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield) p68-70
Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH York, North Riding Vol2 p391-3
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p238
Whellan T, 1859, History and Topography of the City of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire Vol2 p834-6
Grainge, W., 1855, Castles and Abbeys of Yorkshire p301-5
Young, G., 1817, History of Whitby and the Vicinity Vol2 p718-29

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

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/yorkseng.html#yorks42]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p545, 568
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p59 Vol4 p33

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