Willimoteswick Manor, Bardon Mill

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Willimontswick; Willymonteswyke; Willimowteswike; Willymonnteswyke

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

C16 manor house, incorporating earlier building remains (C12/C13 barmkin) and largely rebuilt c.1900. The gatehouse is the principal upstanding remain. Air photographs show a number of earthwork features to the south and east of the manor house, including the foundations of possible buildings and other structures, a trackway, boundaries and ridge and furrow cultivation. In the 1541 survey recorded as “At Willymonteswyke ys a good toure & stone house joyninge there unto of the Inherytence of Nycolas Rydley kepte in good rep'ac'ons.”

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major 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 239276)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY77076363

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; 15451

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N6833

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N6833
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing)
    Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p112
    Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p154-5
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p199-200
    Jackson, M.J.,1992, Castles of Northumbria (Carlise) p133-4 [plan]
    Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p11, 48, 49
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p344
    Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p355-58
    Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p174
    Pevsner, N., 1957, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London, Penguin) p324
    Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles [1970 Reprint by Frank Graham] p231-4
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p433
    Tomlinson, W.W., 1897, Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p163-5
    Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) pxxiii, 48, 383-90
    Hodgson, J.C., 1840, History of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) pt2 Vol3 p340-2 [not very useful]
    Hodgson, J.C., 1832, History of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) pt2 Vol2 p322-5
    Hodgson, J. and Laird, F., 1813, Beauties of England and Wales; Northumberland Vol12 p116
• Journal Articles
  • 1954, Archaeologia Aeliana Vol32 p160-75
    Gibson, J. 1925-6, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle [ser4] Vol2 p75-8
    1889, The Monthly Chronicle; North Country Lore and Legend p517
    1822, Gentlemans Magazine Vol92 pt1 p401-3
• Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
  • 1541 Survey of the East and Middle Marches [Click here]
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/nhumbeng.html#nhumb6]
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Wrathmell, S., 1975, Deserted and Shrunken Villages in Southern Northumberland from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries (PhD Thesis Cardiff)