Beukley

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Bukeley; Bewclay; Boclive; Beuclay

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

Possible site of a pele, the remains were supposedly visible in 1715. Earthwork remains of minor depopulation, an old field-bank (the Ordnance Survey published linear earthwork) with the foundation of two rectangular buildings abutting on its SW side. East of the farm is a small area of hummocky ground which probably contained more buildings, though no intelligible pattern survives. These remains represent minor depopulation only. None of the present farm buildings if of any great age, and no trace of a pele could be found.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY98307093

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; 19092

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N9356

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N9356
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing)
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p345
    Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p68
    Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p67-8
    MacLauchlan, H. 1852. Memoir written during a survey of the Watling Street (London) p22-3
• 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 p13
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Wrathmell, S., 1975, Deserted and Shrunken Villages in Southern Northumberland from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries (PhD Thesis Cardiff) p305-6