The castles, towers and fortified buildings of Cumbria

Helmsley Castle Helmsley North Yorkshire The small market town of Helmsley lays about 10 miles West of Pickering on the A170. This road make...

Beacon Hill siege castle Pickering North Yorkshire It is suggested by some historians that this low scarped mound, some 500 yards to the Wes...

Pickering Castle Pickering North Yorkshire The castle at Pickering in North Yorkshire, lays on the junction of the A169 and the A170, about ...

Castle Park earthworks Kendal Cumbria This interesting earthwork feature can be seen just to the North of the Castle Green Hotel in Kendal, ...

Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Station Kendal Cumbria This Cold War bunker, used for monitoring the movement of radioactive fallout in ...

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...