Great Swinburne Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Great Swinburn; West Swinburne; Westswynburn; Westswynborn; Swinburn Castle; Swinburne Castle; Mickle Swinborne; Mykle Swynburne

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

Possible fortified manor house. Licence to crenellate granted, to Roger Widdrington, in 1346, described as in decay by 1541 and as "an ancient pile" in 1715. Remains comprise two tunnel vaulted basements east of the present house. This new building is a Grade 2* listed building

This site has been described as a;
Tower House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY93477534

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 19003

Web site links

http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N9214

Books

Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p345-7
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p58
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge)
Jackson, M.J.,1992, Castles of Northumbria (Carlise) p112,114
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p50, 63
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p354
Graham, F., 1977, Old Halls, Houses and Inns of Northumberland (Newcastle; Frank Graham) p244-6
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p177
Hedley, W. Percy, 1968-70, Northumberland Families Vol2 p102
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p110
Pevsner, N., 1957. The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London) p295
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Hodgson, John Crawford (ed), 1897, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol4 p279-38
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p10, 15, 47
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p414

Journal Articles

Hodgson, J.C., 1916, 'List of Ruined Towers, Chapels, etc., in Northumberland; compiled about 1715 by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, aided by John Horsley' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser3] Vol13 p7
1889-90, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Vol4 p110-111

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]
1415 list of Northumberland Castles [Click here]
Calendar of Patent Rolls (1345-48) p88

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

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/nhumbeng.html#nhumb10]

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