Post Medieval
Eleanor Thirwall, the last of the Thirlwall family line, abandoned the castle as a residence and the estate passed to the Swinburne family by her 1738 marriage to Matthew Swinburne of Capheaton Hall. Swinburne sold the estate to the Earl of Carlisle for £4000 in 1748.
Thereafter the castle fell into decay. In 1832 and again in 1982 there were serious collapses of masonry.
In 1999 the Northumberland National Park Authority took over the management of the castle, protecting it from further dereliction.
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