MONUMENT NO. 14832

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`Castle walls', documented in 1424 and noted by the vicar of Kirby Thorne in the 17th century. No recent physical evidence for these walls has been found.

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"Warcop once had a castle which stood near where the cemetery stands today"...(c NY 750154). There is now no trace of the building, though according to Machell, vicar of Kirkby Thore in the 17th century there were then "some of the castle walls still standing, which in places were 15' thick". The road here is still
called Castle Hill. (1)

The castle ccupied about an acre of land with walls 5 paces thick built of hewn stone. It is documented in 1424. Evidently stone from this monument was used to build the steeple at Kirkby Stephen church in 1606. (2)

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( 1) General reference

Historical Kirkby Stephen & North Westm 1950 36 (RR Sowerby)

(2) Denis R Perriam and John Robinson 1998 The medieval fortified buildings of Cumbria : an illustrated gazetteer and research guide

Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society extra series vol.29 Page(s)313

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