St Julians Castle, Egton (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Julian Park

In the civil parish of Egton.
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: NZ81640099
Latitude 54.39784° Longitude -0.74400°

St Julians Castle, Egton has been described as a probable Fortified Manor House.

There are masonry footings remains.

Description

St Julian's Castle (site of) applies to the site of an ancient castle. Ord in his history of antiquities of Cleveland gives the date of this castle as AD 1294. There is no trace of the ancient moat. St Julian's Castle was a mansion or hunting lodge belonging to the de Mauleys of Mulgrave. The forest of Egton was granted to them in 1222 and the house was probably built within its deer park (NZ 80 SW 11) later in the same century. It was used as a residence in 1294, and although the later history is obscure its occupation was probably short. Young (1817) mentions the regular form of the site, presumably the moat, which measured 80 yards by 60 yards. The building itself seems to have been completely eradicated in the mid-19th century, for Banks (1866) says the then present tenant of the land had dug up the foundations over half an acre and brought the site into cultivation. Only a fragment of a building now remains, situated near the spring on the east side of the field, and worked stone is visible in the adjacent field wall. A "Saxon quern or handmill", 15 ins diameter and 5 ins high, was found near the site (Whellan). (PastScape)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 29372.
Further information may be available from the holder of the county Historic Environment Record.

Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern: Folly Publications)
  Jackson, M.J., 2001, Castles of North Yorkshire (Carlisle) p. 66
  Hayes, R.H., and Rutter, J.G., 1964, Wade's Causeway: a Roman road in north-east Yorkshire (Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society research reports 4) p. 64
  Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH Yorkshire: North Riding Vol. 2 p. 344 online transcription
  Banks, W.S., 1866, Walks in Yorkshire: The North East p. 235 online copy
  Whellan, T., 1857, History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire (T Whellan and Co) p. 828-9 online copy
  Ord, J.W., 1846, The history and antiquities of Cleveland p. 325 online copy
  Young, G., 1817, A history of Whitby, and Streoneshalh abbey; with a statistical survey of the vicinity to the distance of twenty-five miles Vol. 2 p. 729 online copy
  Graves, J., 1808, History of Cleveland: In the North Riding of the County of York p. 291-2 online copy

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