Irthington Mill (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Newton nr Brampton; Newtown near Brampton

In the civil parish of Irthington.
In the historic county of Cumberland.
Modern Authority of Cumbria.
1974 county of Cumbria.
Medieval County of Cumberland.

OS Map Grid Reference: NY50776237
Latitude 54.95356° Longitude -2.77024°

Irthington Mill has been described as a Timber Castle although is doubtful that it was such.

There are earthwork remains.

Comments

Perriam & Robinson dismiss this as a natural feature on the basis of a site visit and a comment that there would not be two mottes so close together in the same manor. This is not the manorial centre but it is is a position that controls a river crossing and by a water mill site so may have been an outwork to Irthington or a mound of a sub-manor. It certainly is rare for two mottes to be in the same parish (and a parish is not always the same as a manor) but it does happen. Irthing House occupies the possible site of any attached court. However, pending further information, has to be questionable.

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 12769.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 245.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Old Cumbria Gazetteer
  Abaroth's World
Books
- Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 159
  Jackson, M.J.,1990, Castles of Cumbria (Carlisle: Carel Press) p. 63-4
  Collingwood, W.G., 1901, 'Remains of the pre-Norman Period' in H.Arthur Doubleday (ed), VCH Cumberland Vol. 1 p. 292 online copy
Periodical Articles
- Collingwood, W.G., 1923, 'An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Cumberland' Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol. 23 p. 209 online copy
  Graham, T.H.B., 1912, 'Extinct Cumberland Castles (Part IV)' Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol. 12 p. 183 (mention as 'motehill') 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Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.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 (as Newton near Brampton)

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