The Gatehouse website record for Egglescliffe Castleholmes

In the civil parish of Egglescliffe. In the historic county of Durham; County Palatinate of (Modern Authority of Stockton on Tees, 1974 county of Cleveland).

There may have been a castle here. A pastscape record (26944) reports ‘ Batteries, thought to have been emplaced in 1640 on a mound at the north end of Yarm Bridge. No physical evidence found.’ at NZ41891317. This beggars the question as to the nature of the mound mentioned. Jackson writes - Somewhere in the vicinity of Egglescliffe "castleholmes" was a placename in 1554, and a visitor in the 1780s wrote of a "piece of ground called Castle Holm - no remains appear, nor have we received any account of a castle here". By the early C19 the location of Castle Holm was "not certainly known". Certainly the postion would be entirely consistant with a castle.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ4113

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 26944
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