Ingram Vicars Pele

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Ingram Parsonage; Inggeram; Inggerram; Ingrame

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

The alleged location of a tower house, not recorded in the survey of 1415. Decayed by 1541 and destroyed by river changing course in 1580's. Dodds states the tower was not a vicar's pele but a tower large enough to accomodate 40 or 60 men. Possibly towerhouse that degraded and became a parsonage later.

This site has been described as a;
Tower House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Nothing visible remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU019164

Sources of information, references and further reading

Web site links

http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N3099

Books

Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p12-3
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p71
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p11
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p350
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p219
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p126-7
Dodds, Madeleine Hope (ed), 1935, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol14 p471
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p22, 24, 43

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]
1509 Survey of Tevedale [Click here]

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