The Gatehouse website record for Warcop Castle Hill

In the civil parish of Warcop. In the historic county of Westmorland (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).

No remains of possible C13 castle, seat of the de Warcop family, vanished before 1777 when it is recorded that 'About 100yds south-east from the village - was a castle which appears to have ben a large building, and to have taken up more than one acre of ground. Mr Machel says he had seen some part of the walls dug up, which were 15 foot thick, and of fair hewn stone, well cemented with lime and sand.' PastScape record is `Castle walls', noted by the vicar of Kirby Thorne in C17. No recent physical evidence for these walls has been found.' but the PastScape location appears to be 100m further south than Jacksons which fits better with the above description. Jackson writes probably abandoned before 1506.
On Castle Hill we have the site of Warcop Castle which covered more than an acre of ground; Machel speaks of the walls being 15 feet thick well cemented, with the tradition that the steeple of K. Stephen church was built with stones from here in 1606. Collingwood, Ancient Monuments. (Curwen)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY750154

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 14832
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 1807 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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