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List of the Medieval Fortified Sites of the historic county of Yorkshire Ainsty & York

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Questionable
Doubtful
Rejected
Confidence is a statement of the site as a medieval fortification or palace

 

Name Alternative Name(s) Type Remains
Bishopthorpe Palace Palace Masonry footings
Easedike Estdik; Easdike Fortified Manor House Uncertain
East Folifoot Moat House; Follithwaite Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Healaugh Hall Garth Fortified Manor House
Timber Castle
Cropmarks/slight earthworks
John of Caen House, York Cathedral Close Fortified Manor House Nothing visible
Moor Monkton Rede House Ughtred Manor; Monkton on the Moor; Red House; Monketon super moram Fortified Manor House Earthworks
Oxton Manor of the Archbishop of York Palace Nothing visible
Wheldrake Coldric; Queldric; Qweldric; Queldrike; Queldrik Timber Castle
Fortified Manor House
Cropmarks/slight earthworks
William of Hambletons House, York William Hamilton's House Fortified Manor House Nothing visible
York Abbey St Marys Abbey; The Kings Manor Fortified Ecclesiastical site
Urban Defence
Palace
Major
York Archbishops Palace Minster Library Palace Major
York Baile Hill The Old Baile; Baille Hill Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Earthworks
York Castle Cliffords Tower Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Masonry ruins/remnants
York Cathedral Precinct Fortified Ecclesiastical site Nothing visible
York City Wall Bootham Bar; Micklegate Bar; Walmgate Bar; Fishergate Bar; Monk Bar; Castlegate Postern; Fishergate Postern; Layerthorpe Postern; Skeldergate Postern Urban Defence
Chain Tower
Major

This listing was last updated on Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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