Upsall Castle is a fourteenth century ruin, park and manor house in Upsall, in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England.
The earliest extant building on the site is the ruin of a quadrangular castle, probably begun in 1327 by Geoffrey Scrope, which was reputedly demolished in the Civil War. This castle was replaced by a manor house, which was rebuilt in the 19th century and then rebuilt again following destruction by fire in 1918. Upsall castle is part of the Upsall and Roxby estates owned by the Turton family. The present owner of the castle is Gerald Turton, who works to promote the Beef Shorthorn breed of cattle. He is the third generation of his family to run the Upsall herd, which is the oldest in the country having been established in 1909 by Gerald Turton’s great uncle Sir Edmund Turton.
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