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Corby Gates

In the civil parish of Alston Moor.
In the historic county of Cumberland (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).

At Corby Gates is a square building circa 6.5m by 6.5m with walls 1.0m thick, in the middle of a line of barns. It consists of large, uncoursed, rubblework. This may have been one of the 22 tenements and shielings held by Nicholas de Vipont at Nent and Corbrig in 1315. The Cumbria Sites and Monuments Record records it as a possible tower house incorporated in a later structure. There are no traces of Mediaeval occupation. In Salters list of selected bastles.

This site has been described as a;
Pele Tower
Bastle
.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.


The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY733471

Modern Map fromOrdnance Survey logo

Good for landscape form and features

Modern Map from streetmap logo

Good for general location

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PastScape number; 1389101

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 5912

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