Greystoke Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Grey Stock; Craystock; Craystok; Greistock

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

Castle, the licence to crenellate given to William, baron of Greystoke, in 1353. Mostly destroyed in 1648 by General Lambert's army but enlarged and altered in 1789 and restored in 1840. One square tower and one wall of another square tower, of quadrangular castle, incorporated into C18 building.

This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1353 Oct 5.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY435309

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; 11310

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 2925

• Web site links
  • http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/greystok.htm
• Books
  • Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern) p55
    Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (CWAAS) p186-7
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p41
    Jackson, M.J.,1990, Castles of Cumbria (Carel Press)
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p86
    Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p238
    Hugill, Robert, 1977, Castles and Peles of Cumberland and Westmorland (Newcastle; Frank Graham) p89-91
    Pevsner, N., 1967, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland (Harmondsworth, Penguin) p133
    Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal) p190, 205-6
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p314-5
    Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p415
    Lysons, D. and S., 1816, Magna Britannia Vol4 Cumberland p. cciii-ccvi [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=404]
• Journal Articles
  • Thompson, M.W., 1986, 'Associated monasteries and castles in the Middle Ages: a tentative list' Archaeological Journal Vol143 p319
    Lady Howard, 1924, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol24 p156-8
    1913, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol13 p205-6
• Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls (1350-54) p495
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/cumbeng.html#cumb20]
    Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p97
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Stafford-Howard, V.S., History of Greystoke [MS Carlisle Record Office]