Elwick Tower of Thomas Elwyke

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; 'Turris Thomae de Elwyke in Eadem'; Ellwick

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

Site of shrunken village of Elwick. One of two pele towers were recorded in the survey of 1415, and extant in 1561, but no trace of such structures survives. Noted as ruins in 1715.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU115369

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; 7551

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N5069

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N5069
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p61
    Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p114 [slight]
    Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p23
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p347
    Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p151
    Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p98
    Bateson, Edward (ed), 1893, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol1 p411
    Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p17, 53
• Journal Articles
  • 1963, Medieval Village Research Group annual report Vol11, App C No 50
    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 p5
• Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
  • 1561 Survey book of Norham and Islandshire [Click here]
    1415 list of Northumberland Castles [Click here]
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)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), 226-8