Thirlwall Castle
Thirlwall Castle is a ruined castle in the 12th century near the village Greenhead , about 32 kilometers west of Hexham in the English county of Northumberland , on the banks of the river Tipalt . The castle was later expanded with building blocks from the nearby Hadrian's Wall , but fell into disrepair in the 17th century. The ruin has been listed by English Heritage as a historical building of the first degree and it is considered a Scheduled Monument .
Name and meaning
"Thirlwall" means "perforated wall" or "pierced wall". It is derived from Old English þyrel or þyrl , which means a hole made through something, an opening, a mouth, and from Old English weall , which means wall.
history
The castle was the home of the Thirlwall family and was fortified by John Thirlwall around 1330 . In a report from 1542 it is described as owned by a Robert Thirlwall and in "measurably good condition".
Sir Percival Thirlwall of Thirlwall Castle was killed in the Battle of Bosworth on August 22, 1485 while fighting for the cause of the House of York . He was King Richard's standard bearer in the final attack on Bosworth. Tradition has it that he still held the standard when his legs were cut off from under him.
Eleanor Thirlwall , the last in the family line, gave up the castle as a residence and the property fell to the Swinburne family in 1738 when she married Matthew Swinburne of Capheaton Hall . In 1748 the Swinburnes sold the property to the Earl of Carlisle for £ 4,000 .
Then the castle fell into disrepair. In 1832 and again in 1982, major parts of the masonry collapsed.
In 1999 the administration of Northumberland National Park took over the management of the castle ruins and protected them from further deterioration.
Individual references and comments
- ^ William Weaver Tomlinson: Tomlinson's Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland . AM Kelley, 1969. p. 172.
- ^ Joseph Bosworth, Toller, Thomas Northcote: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary . Clarendon Press, 1882. pp. 1085, 1174.
- ↑ Michael Bennett: The Battle of Bosworth . 1993 (1985). Pp. 114, 116.
- ^ Thirlwall Castle: A Short History . Northumberland National Park. ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The family of the previous owner Eleanor Thirlwall moved to Canada in the late 1800s , where they still live today. It is heard that the descendants of Eleanor Thirlwall want to reclaim their rightful estate.
Sources and web links
- John Hodgson: A History of Northumberland . Part 2. Volume 3. 1840. pp. 143-148.
- Photos of Thirwall Castle. North of the Tyne.
- Thirlwall Castle . Castle UK.
Coordinates: 54 ° 59 ′ 20.4 " N , 2 ° 31 ′ 55.2" W.