Burton at Lonsdale Castle

View of the castle hill from the north-west

Burton in Lonsdale Castle is an abandoned castle in the village of Burton in Lonsdale in the English county of North Yorkshire .

The Pipe Rolls for the reign of Henry II record that the garrison of this castle consisted of a knight, ten sergeants, a gatekeeper and a guard.

It was a moth with two outer castles . In 1322 it was confiscated by the Mowbray family , who had turned against King Edward II .

The mound has been preserved to this day.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mary C. Higham: The Mottes of North Lancashire, Lonsdale, and South Cumbria in Transaction of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society . 1991. p. 81.

Web links and sources

• Burton at Lonsdale Castle . ECastles.co.uk
• Burton at Lonsdale Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer.
• Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3

Coordinates: 54 ° 8 ′ 36.7 ″  N , 2 ° 32 ′ 19.7 ″  W.