Buttercrambe Castle (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Bossall; Aldby; Buttertram; Botercram

In the civil parish of Buttercrambe With Bossall.
In the historic county of Yorkshire.
Modern Authority of North Yorkshire.
1974 county of North Yorkshire.
Medieval County of Yorkshire North Riding.

OS Map Grid Reference: SE73355841
Latitude 54.01650° Longitude -0.88204°

Buttercrambe Castle has been described as a probable Timber Castle, and also as a probable Fortified Manor House.

There are earthwork remains.

Description

Possible Medieval motte and bailey licenced in 1201, extant as earthworks, located in Aldby Park. The bailey has been extensively landscaped making accurate interpretation difficult. By 1633 the earthworks were in use as a garden. (PastScape)

The 'well-built' capital messuage of 1282 may have been the building inclosed and fortified by William de Stutevill and probably stood on the site of Henry Darley's house which was burnt before 1654. (fn. 48) (VCH)

A Royal licence to crenellate was granted in 1201 March 2 (Click on the date for details of this licence.).

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 1148991.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) MNY24411.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Abaroth's World
Books
- Turner, Maurice, 2004, Yorkshire Castles: Exploring Historic Yorkshire (Otley: Westbury Publishing) p. 102, 236
  Jackson, M.J., 2001, Castles of North Yorkshire (Carlisle) p. 6-7
  Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 27
  Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p. 17
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 514
  Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p. 197
  Renn, D.F., 1973 (2 edn.), Norman Castles of Britain (London: John Baker) p. 126
  Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH Yorkshire: North Riding Vol. 2 p. 93 online transcription
  Armitage and Montgomerie, 1912, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Yorkshire Vol. 2 p. 45
  Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (London: Methuen and Co)
Periodical Articles
- I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'The castles of the North Riding' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 22 p. 332-3
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Hardy, T.D. (ed), 1837, Rotuli Chartarum, 1199-1216 (Record Commission) p. 89b online copy
  Stubbs, W. (ed), 1868, Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene (Rolls Series 51) Vol. 4 p. 117 (dated 1200)
  Farrer, Wm and Clay, C.T. (ed), 1952, Early Yorkshire Charters Vol. 9 The Stuteville Fee (Cambridge University Press) p. 10
  Brown, Wm (ed), 1892, Yorkshire Inquistions of the reigns of Henry III and Edward I (Yorkshire Archaeological Society) Vol. 1 p. 242 online copy
  1911, Report on the manuscripts of Lord Middleton, preserved at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (Historical Manuscripts Commission) p. 51 online copy
  Green, M.A.E. (ed), 1892 Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, etc. 1643-1660 (HMSO) Vol. 5 no. 3215 online copy
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Constable, Christopher, 2003, Aspects of the archaeology of the castle in the north of England C 1066-1216 (Doctoral thesis, Durham University) Available at Durham E-Theses Online
  Creighton, O.H., 1998, Castles and Landscapes: An Archaeological Survey of Yorkshire and the East Midlands (PhD Thesis University of Leicester) p. 582 online copy

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