Bolton Castle
Bolton Castle is a castle in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales of the northern English county of North Yorkshire .
Richard le Scrope had the castle built between 1378 and 1399. Descendants of the Scrope family - the Lords Bolton - still own it today but have lived on Bolton Hall since 1678 .
Bolton Castle is very compact. The residential buildings around the inner courtyard are three stories high, while the four corner towers were originally five stories high. So the castle was very strongly fortified. However, there were no flanking gate towers or a drawbridge.
The castle is best known as the place where Queen Mary of Scots was imprisoned for half a year in 1568. Francis Knollys , who placed the fugitive Maria Stuart there on the instructions of Elizabeth I , said: "The highest walls of any house he had seen".
Bolton Castle was also the location for period films such as B. Ivanhoe - The Black Knight , Elizabeth , Heartbeat and The Doctor and the Dear Cattle .
Web links
- Official Website of Bolton Castle (English)
- Bolton Castle in the English list of monuments on historicengland.co.uk: Entry 1 Entry 2 (English)
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 18 ″ N , 1 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ W.