List of Castles in England

Northumberland

See also: Map of castles in Northumberland

Castles of which little or nothing remains include:

Cornhill Castle
Dally Castle
Duddo Tower
Elsdon Castle
Ford Parson's Tower
Great Tosson Tower
Haggerston Castle
Haltwhistle Castle
Heiferlaw Tower
Hepple Tower
Hethpool Tower
Howtel Tower
Kyloe Tower
Little Swinburne Tower
Lowick Castle
Nafferton Castle
Overgrass Tower
Ponteland Castle
Simonburn Castle
Staward Peel
Tarset Castle
Thornton Tower
Twizell Castle
Warden Castle
Wark Castle
Welton Hall
West Lilburn Tower
Widdrington Castle

Name	Type	Date	Condition	Ownership / Access	Notes
Alnham Vicars Pele	Pele tower	1301 !14th century	Restored	Private
Alnwick Castle	Keep and bailey	1101 !12–14th century	Restored	HH ! Duke of Northumberland	Remodelled by Robert Adam and Anthony Salvin.
Aydon Castle	Fortified manor house	1301 !14th century	Intact	EH !	Converted to farmhouse 17th century.
Bamburgh Castle	Keep and bailey	1101 !12–14th century	Restored	HH ! Lord Armstrong	Ruinous by 1704, extensively restored in 1894–1904.
Barmoor Castle	Tower house	1301 !14–19th century	Rebuilt	Private	19th-century mansion incorporating remains of a 14th-century building.
Beaufront Castle	Neo-romantic castle	1836 !1836–1841	Intact	Private	19th-century mansion on the site of a 15th-century tower house.
Bellister Castle	Castle	1201 !13–14th century	Fragmentary remains	Private	Ruins adjoining a 17th-century house.
Belsay Castle	Tower house	1439 !1439–60	Intact	EH !	Later ruined building attached.
Berwick Castle	Castle	1101 !12–13th century	Fragmentary remains	EH !
Bitchfield Castle	Pele tower	1301 !14th century	Restored	Private	Incorporated in later mansion.
Blenkinsop Castle	Tower house	1301 !14th century	Ruins	Private	Incorporated into a 19th-century house.
Bothal Castle	Castle	1301 !14th century	Rebuilt	Private	Extensively restored in the 19th century.
Bywell Castle	Castle	1401 !15th century	Fragments	Private	Gatehouse survives.
Callaly Castle	Pele tower	1301 !14–15th century	Intact	Private apartments	Incorporated in later country house.
Cartington Castle	Pele tower and extensions	1301 !14–15th century	Fragmentary remains	Private
Chillingham Castle	Quadrangular castle	1344 !1344	Intact	HH !	Altered in the 17–19th centuries, restored after 1982.
Chipchase Castle	Tower house	1301 !14th century	Intact	HH !	Incorporated in Jacobean house, altered in the 18–19th centuries.
Cocklaw Tower	Tower house	1301 !14–15th century	Shell	Private, farm	Near Wall.
Cockle Park Tower	Tower house	1517 !c. 1517	Substantially intact	Newcastle University
Corbridge Vicar's Pele	Pele tower	1318 !1318	Intact	HAL !	Re-roofed in 1910.
Coupland Castle	Tower house	1501 !16–17th century	Restored	Private	Later additions.
Craster Tower	Pele tower	1301 !14–15th century	Intact	Holiday accommodation	Incorporated in later building.
Crawley Tower	Pele tower	1301 !14th century	Ruins	Private	A cottage was built within the walls in the 18th century.
Cresswell Castle	Pele tower	1401 !15th century	Ruin		18th century-parapet.
Dilston Castle	Tower house	1401 !15th century	Ruins	HC !	Altered in the 16–17th century, later buildings demolished.
Dunstanburgh Castle	Keep and bailey	1301 !14th century	Fragmentary ruins	EH !	Spectacular coastal setting.
Edlingham Castle	Keep and bailey	1301 !14th century	Fragmentary ruins	EH !
Elsdon Tower	Pele tower	1501 !16th century	Intact	Private	Altered, rectory until 1960, restored in the 1990s.
Embleton Tower	Pele tower	1301 !14th century	Intact	Private	19th-century vicarage attached.
Etal Castle	Castle	1301 !14th century	Fragmentary ruins	EH !
Featherstone Castle	Castle	1301 !14th century	Intact	Private	14th-century tower, three further towers added in the 18–19th century.
Ford Castle	Quadrangular castle	1301 !14th century	Substantially intact	Private	Converted into mansion in the 17th century.
Halton Castle	Tower house	1201 !13–14th century	Intact	Private	Attached to later house.
Harbottle Castle	Keep and bailey	1101 !12–14th century	Fragmentary ruins	HAL ! Northumberland National Park	Captured by Robert Bruce in 1318.
Haughton Castle	Tower house	1201 !13–14th century	Restored	Private	Altered in the 18–19th centuries.
Hexham Moot Hall and Old Gaol	Fortified towers	1301 !14–15th century	Intact	HM !	Probably once connected by bailey wall, AD1415 list of castles has "Turris de Hexham".
Horsley Tower, Longhorsley	Pele tower	1501 !16th century	Intact	Private
Langley Castle	Tower house	1350 !c. 1350	Restored	Hotel	Restored in the 1890s.
Lemmington Hall	Tower house	1401 !15th century	Restored	Wedding venue	Incorporated in later house.
Lindisfarne Castle	Artillery fort	1501 !16th century	Restored	ENT !	Remodelled by Edwin Lutyens 1901.
Mitford Castle	Keep and bailey	1001 !11–13th century	Fragmentary ruins	HC !
Morpeth Castle	Castle	1342 !1342–9	Fragments	Landmark Trust	Only gatehouse and a section of wall remain.
Norham Castle	Keep and bailey	1101 !12th century	Ruins	EH !	Keep remodelled in 1422–25, partly rebuilt in 1513–15.
Preston Tower, Ellingham	Pele tower	1401 !c. 1400	Fragment	HC !	South wall remains, with two of the original four turrets.
Prior Castell's Tower	Tower house	1401 !15–16th century	Substantially intact	ENT !
Prudhoe Castle	Castle	1101 !12–14th century	Ruins	EH !
Shilbottle Tower	Pele tower	1401 !15th century	Restored	Private	Incorporated into a vicarage.
Shortflatt Tower	Pele tower	1301 !14–15th century	Restored	Wedding venue	Incorporated in later house.
Thirlwall Castle	Tower house	1301 !14th century	Fragmentary ruins	HAL ! Northumberland National Park	Built with stone from Hadrian's Wall.
Warkworth Castle	Keep and bailey	1101 !12–14th century	Ruins	EH !
Whittingham Tower	Pele tower	1201 !13–14th century	Restored	Private	Converted for use as almshouses in 1845.
Whitton Tower	Pele tower	1386 !c. 1386	Intact	Holiday accommodation	Near Rothbury, well-preserved.
Willimoteswick Castle	Fortified manor house	1501 !16th century	Ruins	Private, farm	Incorporates remains of earlier building, largely rebuilt in 1900.

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