The castles, towers and fortified buildings of Cumbria

Bronze age burial cairns Mallerstang Nr Kirkby Stephen Cumbria On the South banks of a bend in the River Eden in the Mallerstang valley, the...

Pillow mounds Mallerstang Nr Kirkby Stephen Cumbria It will probably come as a great surprise to many, to know that rabbits were not always ...

Lammerside Tower Lammerside Nr Kirkby Stephen Cumbria It’s looking increasingly likely that Lammerside Tower is in fact the upstanding remai...

Lammerside Tower bridge remains Lammerside Nr Kirkby Stephen Cumbria The manorial complex at Lammerside was large and consisted of a hall (p...

Lammerside Tower Nr Kirkby Stephen Cumbria Lammerside deserved another visit...I haven't been there since December 2005....and this time...

Pendragon Castle Mallerstang nr Kirkby Stephen Cumbria My favourite site, probably in the whole of Cumbria...Pendragon is isolated on the be...

Sizergh Castle Sizergh Nr Kendal Cumbria Sizergh Castle has recently undergone a period of in depth maintenance. For two years the exterior ...

Moated site Ravenstonedale Cumbria This is one of the intriguing sites with little history available to tell. Sited some two miles South Wes...

Kentmere Hall Nr Kendal Cumbria Kentmere Tower can be found about 12 miles North of Kendal, at the end of the Kentmere valley from wher...

Melmerby Hall Melmerby Cumbria The small village of Melmerby can be found about six miles North East of Penrith on the A686. The church of c...

Here are a few more views of Kendal Castle, a site that seems to change with each day!! Below, a view of the main hall from within the confi...