Abberwick Tower

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

The deserted remains of the medieval village of Abberwick, including the foundations of a tower house and surviving open field system. The remains are visible as a series of earthworks in the fields to the north, north east and west of the modern farm of Abberwick. The most prominent feature is a raised rectangular mound 12m by 7m standing to a height of 1.5m. Situated upon this mound there are the foundations of a rectangular enclosure divided into two compartments and visible as low earthen banks. This building is thought to be the remains of a tower which was recorded at Abberwick in a document of 1572.

This site has been described as a;
Pele Tower.
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 NU12551324

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; 7218

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N4458

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N4458
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p150-1
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p345
    Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p11
    Beresford, M. and Hurst, J.G., 1971, Deserted Medieval Villages (Gloucester), 198
    Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p51
    Hodgson, John Crawford (ed), 1904, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol7 p134, 198, 200
    
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Dixon, P.J., 1984. The Deserted Medieval Villages of North Northumberland Vol2 (PhD Thesis University of Wales) pp8-13