Millom Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Millum

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

The ruins of a castle or moated manor house are incorporated into the present C16/C17 farmhouse; licence to crenellate granted to John Hudleston, in 1335. Partially demolished in 1644. Standing remains include the great Tower of 1660, hall and the ruined gatehouse. The house has the hall to the north; the east range has a central gatehouse, kitchen range to the north and the solar range to the south. There are earthwork remains of a Medieval moat to the west and north. Curwen writes a further licence was granted in 1622 but this seems to be an error (Salter, who must have been using this reference gives this date as 1522 making Curwen's error even more confusing)

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 1335 Aug 24.

A supposed Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1622 March 10.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 1 listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 76333)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SD17128134

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; 37299

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 2703

• Web site links
  • http://www.visitcumbria.com/wc/millomcastle.htm
• Books
  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (CWAAS)
    Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern) p74
    Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p229, 263
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p44
    Jackson, M.J.,1990, Castles of Cumbria (Carel Press) p74
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p89
    Clare, T., 1981, Archaeological Sites of the Lake District p86-91
    Hugill, Robert, 1977, Castles and Peles of Cumberland and Westmorland (Newcastle; Frank Graham) p133-4
    Pevsner, N., 1967, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland (Harmondsworth, Penguin) p162-3
    Collingwood, W.G., 1928, Lake District History p75
    Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal) p189, 211-12
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p321-2
    Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p410
    Lysons, D. and S., 1816, Magna Britannia Vol4 Cumberland p. cciii-ccvi [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=404]
    Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol1 p46
• Journal Articles
  • 1983, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol83 p85-99
    Cowper, 1924, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol24 p180-234
    Knowles, 1866-73, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol1 p275-7
• 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 (1334-38) p167
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/cumbeng.html#cumb3]
    Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p97