North Duffield Castle, Yorkshire (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Hall Farm; Skipwith; Norduffeld

In the civil parish of North Duffield.
In the historic county of Yorkshire.
Modern Authority of North Yorkshire.
1974 county of North Yorkshire.
Medieval County of Yorkshire East Riding.

OS Map Grid Reference: SE69183738
Latitude 53.82809° Longitude -0.95042°

North Duffield Castle, Yorkshire has been described as a certain Fortified Manor House.

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains.

Description

Medieval fortified manor house, traditionally the site of a 'castle', located on a natural spur to the west of the River Derwent . The natural defences on three sides are enhanced by a broad moat ditch on the western side. There are no traces of the manor house, mentioned in documentary sources in 1320, as the present farmhouse is modern. (PastScape)

North Duffield anciently belonged to the Salvins, a knightly race, to whom it came through the marriage of Sibyl, one of the heirs of Roger de Thurkelby, with Robert Salveyn, in the reign of Edward I. Sir Gerald, his son, was cited to answer Quo Warranto he claimed a market, fair, tumbrell, gallows, and pillory, and he pleaded that the same had been granted by charter to Roger de Thurkelby, his mother's uncle. The Salvins had their principal residence here. Later the manor descended to the Husseys, whose castle stood on the banks of the Derwent. Lord Hussey, of this place, took an active part in the Pilgrimage of Grace, and was executed with the other leaders in 1537. The castle was demolished long ago, but the site where it stood is still easily traceable by the unevenness of the ground. Near the spot is Duffield Hall, a farmhouse, occupied by Mr. William Townsley. (Bulmer's History and Directory )

The medieval manor-house of the Salvains, mentioned in 1320, presumably stood on the site now occupied by a farm-house known as North Duffield Hall, which still has prominent earthworks around it. This is traditionally the site of a 'castle', presumably the fortified manor-house. (VCH)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 57980.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) MNY17551.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Wikipedia entry
Books
- Neave, Susan, 1991, Medieval Parks of East Yorkshire (Univeristy of Hull) p. 46
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 531 (possible)
  Allison, K.J. (ed), 1976, VCH Yorkshire: East Riding Vol. 3 p. 95 online transcription
  Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5) p. 111
  1892, History and Directory of East Yorkshire (Bulmer) p. 713 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.)
- Fowler, J.T. (ed), 1892, The Coucher Book of Selby: From the Original MS. in the Possession of Thomas Brooke Vol. 2 (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series 13) p. 13
  TNA C134/64/12 (1320) TNA ref.
  Baildon, W. Paley (ed), 1915, Feet of Fines for the County of York 1347-77 (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series 52) p. 115 (1367)
  Clay, C.T. (ed), 1926, Yorkshire Deeds (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series 69) Vol. 5 p. 32 (1407)
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. 612-13 online copy

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