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Crazy Castle, Skelton
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Skelton Castle
In the civil parish of Skelton And Brotton.
In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of Redcar & Cleveland, 1974 county of Cleveland).
Very large promontory site the flanking valleys having been widened into enormous ditches. Castle at the end with burgus in front. Said to have been originally built in C11. Pulled down in1788. Grade 1 listed C18 mansion on site which incorporates medieval north wing and bits of wall and windows. The medieval north wing and bits of wall and windows are incorporated in the current building. The well defined course of a moat can be traced. Sandstone and slate. Medieval castle of de Brus family.
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Masonry Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 432751)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ65181933
PastScape number;
28285
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p93
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p136-7
Jackson, M.J., 1996, Castles of Durham and Cleveland (Carlise)
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p301 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p525-6
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker) p357
Sanders, I.J., 1960, English Baronies. A study of their origin and descent 1086-1327 p77-8
Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield)
Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH Yorkshire North Riding Vol2 p405-406
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Yorkshire Vol2 p51
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p262
Young, G., 1817, History of Whitby and the Vicinity p730
Bigland, J., 1812, Beauties of England and Wales; Yorkshire Vol16 p309-11
Graves, J., 1808, History of Cleveland p356-7
- Journal Articles
- Brown, R, Allen, 1959, 'A List of Castles, 1154–1216' English Historical Review Vol74 [Reprinted in Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles, conquest and charters: collected papers (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p249-280] p277
I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'The castles of the North Riding' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol22 p380-390 [plan]
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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