Bradley Greenbyre, Bardon Mill

In the civil parish of Bardon Mill.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).

In the north eatern corner of the desertered village of Bradley are the walls of the bastle stand to a maximum height of 0.8m. The bastle is attached to a large roughly rectangular enclosure containing the remains of post-medieval ploughing. The site of a ruined bastle in this location is named on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1866 as 'Greenbyer'. The stone foundations of what are thought to be a second bastle lie some 30m to the east of the first. They measure 7.6 meters east-west by 5.5m with walls standing up to 0.3m high. King and Dodds mention one bastle and presume it was either at Bradley Hall or Bradley Hall Farm.

This site has been described as a;
Bastle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry footings remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY77896757

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 1233910

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N6607

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N6607
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p392-3
    Crowe, J., 1995, Housesteads (London) p98-100
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2