Rockcliffe Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Rokele; Rokclife; Rocliffe; Rowcliffe

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

No remains of early C16 site described by Leland as "a pretty Pile or Castle of the Lord Dakers" rebuilt in circa1607 and demolished in circa1659. The site is now largely under a road. Foundations and a courtyard pavement were revealed during road widening in 1901. A tower house rather than a pele tower. Shown on Aglionby's "Platt" of 1590.

This site has been described as a;
Tower House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Nothing visible remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY35386194

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 10833

Web site links

http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/maps/sol4.gif

Books

Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (CWAAS) p82
Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern) p84
Jackson, M.J.,1990, Castles of Cumbria (Carel Press) p82-3
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p94
Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal) p391-3
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)

Journal Articles

1939, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol39 p156-8
Graham, T.H.B., 1910, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol10 p108-12
1902, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol2 p412-3

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/cumbeng.html#cumb25]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p93

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