Barwick-in-Elmet Castle

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Barwick-in-Elmet Castle is an Outbound castle in the village of Barwick-in-Elmet east of Leeds in the English administrative unit of West Yorkshire .

Originally there was an Iron Age hill fort on the site . The Norman Ilbert de Lacy had a moth built at the southern end of this hill fort . The castle hill still preserved today is called Hall Tower Hill , the outer bailey to the east has since been completely destroyed and built over.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hall Tower Hill and Wendel Hill - Barwick in Elmet . Brigantes Nation. Archived from the original on December 12, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2015.

swell

  • Plantagenet Somerset Fry: David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 . P. 184.

Coordinates: 53 ° 49'56.1 "  N , 1 ° 23'48.3"  W.