The castles, towers and fortified buildings of Cumbria

Holyrood Palace Edinburgh Scotland I t's hard to believe that Holyrood palace could have provided its Royal inhabitants with any degree...

Cunswick Hall Cunswick Fell near Kendal Cumbria It will still be a while before I manage to get a photo of the only remaining part...

Tower E Bootham York Tower E can be found about two hundred feet East of Tower D. It is partially obscured by modern buildings, but where th...

Tower D Bootham York Tower D is situated on Bootham, at the Northern extremes of the abbey precincts. The tower would have formed part of th...

Tower C Marygate York Tower C lays about about four hundred feet North of Tower B, and is a totally different structure. The early 13th cent...

Tower B Marygate York Tower B is a 19th century reconstruction of a tower that was previously demolished. We know that there was an original...

Tower A Marygate York Tower A lays less than a hundred feet North of the Water tower on Marygate, and is now little more than an empty stone...

The Water Tower Marygate York The water tower lays at the South Western corner of the abbey precincts, and marks the end of the Marygate wal...

Marygate walls Marygate York Yorkshire The abbey of St Mary is surrounded by a lightly defensible precinct wall, incorporating towers and ga...

St Olave's gatehouse Marygate York Yorkshire It would appear from some internet sources, that the roof of St Olave was used as a gun ...

Old Sedgwick Gunpowder works, Near Sedgwick\Natland Cumbria Visible from Hawes Bridge over the River Kent, some two miles South of Kendal, a...

Low Sedgwick Gunpowder works Near Sedgwick Cumbria Low Park Wood caravan site lies on the West banks of the River Kent, shrouded in tr...

Victoria Bridge Kendal Cumbria Victoria Bridge links Sandes Avenue with Station Road and carries the A6 over the River Kent. It was built in...