Earle (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Yerdle; Yherdhill; Yerdehill; Yerdlun; Yardle; Yeardle

In the civil parish of Earle.
In the historic county of Northumberland.
Modern Authority of Northumberland.
1974 county of Northumberland.
Medieval County of Northumberland.

OS Map Grid Reference: NT987262
Latitude 55.52944° Longitude -2.02091°

Earle has been described as a probable Pele Tower, and also as a certain Bastle.

There are no visible remains.

Description

A survey of 1541 states that the township of Yerdle contains a 'bastell house without a barmekyn' and is the inheritance of Thomas Hebburn and Gilbert Scott (Bates 1891).
Dacre's map of 1584 shows this tower (this map, reproduced in Bates, has insufficient information for even approximate siting).
In the 17th century the Hebburn's lands were at South Earle and the Scott's at North Earle. The present (1935) houses at these places are of the early 19th century (Dodds 1935).
The present buildings at North Earle and South Earle show no traces of antiquity, and there is no local tradition of a tower (F1 EG 29-SEP-1955). (Northumberland HER)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 2430.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) N1492.

Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Newcastle upon Tyne: Keepdate Publishing) p. 107
  Graham, Frank, 1993, Northumberian Castles Aln, Tweed and Till (Butler Publishing) p. 17
  Rowland, T.H., 1987 (reprint1994), Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p. 32
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 347
  Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p. 141-2
  Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p. 95
  Dodds, Madeleine Hope (ed), 1935, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol. 14 p. 171 and 173
  Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p. 33, 78-9 (Also published as the whole of volume 14 (series 2) of Archaeologia Aeliana view online)
Periodical Articles
- Bates, C.J., 1891, 'Border Holds of Northumberland' Archaeologia Aeliana (ser2) Vol. 14 p. 33, 78-9 online copy
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- 1541, View of the Castles, Towers, Barmekyns and Fortresses of the Frontier of the East and Middle Marches Survey of the East and Middle Marches

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