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Monument Number 14832
Hob Uid: 14832
Location : Cumbria Eden Warcop
Grid Ref : NY7499015390
Summary : `Castle walls', documented in 1424 and noted by the vicar of Kirby Thorne in the 17th century. No recent physical evidence for these walls has been found.
More information : "Warcop once had a castle which stood near where the cemetery stands today"...(c NY 750154). There is now no trace of the building, though according to Machell, vicar of Kirkby Thore in the 17th century there were then "some of the castle walls still standing, which in places were 15' thick". The road here is still called Castle Hill. (1) The castle ccupied about an acre of land with walls 5 paces thick built of hewn stone. It is documented in 1424. Evidently stone from this monument was used to build the steeple at Kirkby Stephen church in 1606. (2)

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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Historical Kirkby Stephen & North Westm 1950 36 (RR Sowerby)
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Vol(s) : vol.29

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Extant 1424
Monument End Date : 1424
Monument Start Date : 1424
Monument Type : Castle, Curtain Wall
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Demolished by 1606
Monument End Date : 1606
Monument Start Date : 1606
Monument Type : Castle, Curtain Wall
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : NY 71 NE 1
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Monument Number 14832