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Castle Levington
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Castle Leavington; Kirk Leavington
In the civil parish of Castlelevington .
In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of Stockton on Tees, 1974 county of Cleveland).
'A very fine motte, placed at an angle of a steep bluff, the ground to the west being a level plateau, on which no signs of an attached bailey can be seen. The earthen breastwork round the top, enclosing an area of 0.5 acres, is in good condition, and retains its entrance on the south, and its inner platform. The outer slope of the motte is slightly flattened except on the south east and the ditch completely surrounds it. The manor was given to Robert de Brus early in C12 but by 1274 only the motte remained.' This description from the PastScape makes it clear this was a ringwork, rather than a motte, timber castle, despite the records use of the term motte.
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Earthworks remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ461103
PastScape number;
26929
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern) p28
Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p20
Jackson, M.J., 1996, Castles of Durham and Cleveland (Carlise) p38-40
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p301 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p515
Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield) 9125-6
Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH York, North Riding Vol2 p258-9
Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Yorkshire Vol2 p20-21
Whellan, T., 1857, History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire (T Whellan and Co) Vol2 p749-50
Graves, J., 1808, History of Cleveland p93-4
- Journal Articles
- King, D.J.C. and Alcock, L., 1969, 'Ringworks in England and Wales' Château Gaillard Vol3 p90-127
I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'The castles of the North Riding' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol22 p334-6 [plan]
Armitage, 1901, The Reliquary Vol7 p165
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