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Otterburn Tower
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Otterburn Castle; Otiburne
In the civil parish of Otterburn.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
Country house, built after 1830 and now a hotel. The building incorporates part of an C18 house and possibly some earlier fabric. The building was extended to the rear in 1904. A tower stood on this site from the mid C13 and may have been incorporated into C18 house, most of which was demolished prior to the construction of the present building. Built by the de Umfravilles and the 'capital messuage mentioned here in 1308 was described as 'very strong' in 1388 when it withstood a Scottish siege.
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.
This site is a
Grade 2 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 239688)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY88749315
PastScape number;
17458
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N8287
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p331-4
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p90
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p200 [slight]
Jackson, M.J.,1992, Castles of Northumbria (Carlise) p101
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p37, 52
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p352
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p291-3
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p144
Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles [1970 Reprint by Frank Graham] p179-80
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p414-6
Tomlinson, W.W., 1897, Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p312
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p18
Hodgson, J.C., 1827, History of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) pt2 Vol1 p107-15
Hodgson, J. and Laird, F., 1813, Beauties of England and Wales; Northumberland Vol12 p146-7
- Journal Articles
- Pease, H., 1924. Archaeologia Aeliana [ser3] Vol21 p121-2, 131
1860, Gentlemans Magazine Vol8 pt1 p378
- Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p342
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol5 p63
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