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List of the Medieval Fortified Sites of the historic county of Yorkshire Ainsty & York

Certain
Possible
Questionable
Doubtful
Rejected
Confidence is a statement of the site as a medieval fortification or palace

 

Name Alternative Name(s) Type Remains
Bishopthorpe Palace Palace Masonry footings
Easedike Estdik; Easdike Fortified Manor House Uncertain
East Folifoot Moat House; Follithwaite Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Healaugh Hall Garth Fortified Manor House
Timber Castle
Cropmarks/slight earthworks
John of Caen House, York Cathedral Close Fortified Manor House Nothing visible
Moor Monkton Rede House Ughtred Manor; Monkton on the Moor; Red House; Monketon super moram Fortified Manor House Earthworks
Oxton Manor of the Archbishop of York Palace Nothing visible
William of Hambletons House, York Fortified Manor House Nothing visible
York Abbey St Marys Abbey; The Kings Manor Fortified Ecclesiastical site
Urban Defence
Palace
Major
York Archbishops Palace Palace Major
York Baile Hill The Old Baile; Baille Hill Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Earthworks
York Castle Cliffords Tower Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Masonry ruins/remnants
York City Wall Bootham Bar; Micklegate Bar; Walmgate Bar; Fishergate Bar; Monk Bar; Castlegate Postern; Fishergate Postern; Layerthorpe Postern; Skeldergate Postern Urban Defence
Chain Tower
Major

This listing was last updated on Friday, April 6, 2007

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