Castle Heaton Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Heaton near Coldstream; Heton; Old Heaton

In the civil parish of Cornhill on Tweed.
In the historic county of Durham; North (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).

Remains of a quadrangular castle founded in 1415 destroyed in 1496 by the Scots and James IV. Out of use by 1550, Although ruins adapted to form bases for large bastle type building with stone vault. The surviving remains consist of two buttresses set against the north east wall of the stable and the probable remains of a turret and rampart. The site is now covered by farm buildings.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NT90114191

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; 4095

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N2338

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N2338
    http://www.sine.newcastle.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=140
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p46-7
    Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p64
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p200 [slight]
    Pevsner, N., 1992 (revised by Grundy, John et al), The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London, Penguin) p587
    Jackson, M.J.,1992, Castles of Northumbria (Carlise) p42
    Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p10, 11, 18, 19
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p335
    Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p195
    Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p119
    Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles p119
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p394-5
    Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p14, 23, 29, 53, 329-30
    Raine, J., 1852, History and Antiquities of North Durham (London) p387
    Hutchinson, Wm, 1785-94, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham Vol3 p413-4
• 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 p12
    Aiken, 1912-15, History of the Berwickshire Naturalist Club Vol22 p176-8
• Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
  • 1584 Commissioners Report [Click here]
    1561 Survey book of Norham and Islandshire [Click here]
    1541 Survey of the East and Middle Marches [Click here]
    1509 Survey of Tevedale [Click here]
    1415 list of Northumberland Castles [Click here]
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p344
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Ryder, P.F., 1995. Towers and Bastles in Northumberland Part 2 Berwick district p10-12