Upsall Castle

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Upsall Castle is a ruin of a castle from the 14th century and a mansion with a park in the village Upsall in the district of Hambleton of English administrative unit North Yorkshire .

history

The earliest extensive structure on the site is the ruins of a fort castle , which Geoffrey le Scrope presumably had built from 1327. There is evidence that the castle was destroyed in the English Civil War.

This castle was replaced by a manor house, which was rebuilt in the 19th century and then renewed again after a fire in 1918.

Upsall Castle is part of the Upsall and Roxby Estates , owned by the Turton family . The current owner of the property is Gerald Turton .

Legends

John Constable , who resided in the castle in 1610, was a supporter of the royalist cause during the English Civil War . The writers William Grainge and John Gilbert Baker noted in the 19th century that he supposedly left a curse on any owner of Upsall Castle who would prove disloyal to his king and country.

The authors also reported a legend about a man who dug under a bush at Upsall Castle and found a pot of gold. A stranger later revealed to him that there was a second pot of gold under the first, which he also dug up.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Upsall Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ GENUKI: South Kilvington Parish information from Bulmers' 1890 . www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ Upsall, North Yorkshire . Archived from the original on October 26, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 8, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thirsk.org.uk
  4. ↑ William Grainge, John Gilbert Baker: The Vale of Mowbray: A Historical and Topographical Account of Thirsk and Its Neighborhood . Simpkin, Mashall & Co., 1859. pp. 271-272. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ William Grainge, John Gilbert Baker: The Vale of Mowbray: A Historical and Topographical Account of Thirsk and Its Neighborhood . Simpkin, Mashall & Co., 1859. pp. 277-278. Retrieved November 8, 2016.

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Eliza Gutch: County Folk-Lore . Volume 2: Examples of Printed Folk-Lore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire, York, and the Ainsty . David Nutt, London 1901, for Folk-Lore Society. Pp. 408-409.

Web links

Commons : Upsall Castle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 16 ′ 31.3 "  N , 1 ° 18 ′ 3.3"  W.