List of castles in England

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This page lists castles in England.

Key
Image:AP_Icon.PNG Abbey/Priory/Cathedral
Accessible open space Accessible open space
Amusement/Theme Park
Image:CL_icon.svg Castle
Country Park Country Park
Image:EH icon.svg English Heritage
Image:Forestry commission logo.svg Forestry Commission
Heritage railway Heritage railway
Historic house Historic House
Museum (free)
Museum
Museums (free/not free)
National Trust National Trust
Zoo

[edit] Bedfordshire

Name Key Comments
Bedford Castle Image:EH icon.png
Biggleswade Castle
Cainhoe Castle
Chalgrave Castle No visible remains
Colmworth Castle
Eastcotts Castle Earthworks
Eaton Socon Castle
Etonbury Castle
Flitwick Castle
Gannock Castle
Great Barford Castle
Higham Gobion Castle
Luton Castle No visible remains
Odell Castle Image:EH icon.png
Old Warden Castle
Podington Castle
Renhold Castle
Risinghoe Castle
Rugemont Castle
Someries Castle Image:EH icon.png
Thurleigh Castle
Tilsworth Castle
Toddington Castle Earthworks
Totternhoe Castle Earthworks
Yielden Castle Earthworks mound

[edit] Berkshire

Name Key Comments
Beaumys Castle Swallowfield
Brightwell Castle
Donnington Castle Image:EH icon.png
Faringdon Castle
FitzHarris Castle
Grimsbury Castle (Hill fort)
Hampstead Marshall Castle
Hampstead Norreys Castle
Hinton Waldrist Castle
Moreton Castle
Newbury Castle
Perborough Castle (Hill fort)
Wallingford Castle Image:EH icon.png
Windsor Castle Image:EH icon.png the Sovereign
Woodhay Castle
Yattendon Castle

[edit] Bristol

Name Key Comments
Bristol Castle

[edit] Buckinghamshire

Name Key Comments
Bolbeck Castle
Bradwell Castle
Buckingham Castle
Castlethorpe Castle
Cublington Castle
Desborough Castle
Ellesborough Castle
Great Missenden Castle
High Wycombe Castle
Lavendon Castle
Little Kimble Castle
Little Missenden Castle
Long Crendon Castle
Newport Pagnell Castle
Weston Turville Castle
Wolverton Castle

[edit] Cambridgeshire

Name Key Comments
Aldreth Castle
Barnack Castle
Belsar's Hill Castle
Benwick Castle
Booths Hill
Bourn Castle
Braham Castle
Bruck Castle
Buckden Towers Image:EH icon.png
Burrough Green Castle
Burwell Castle
Cambridge Castle
Castle Camps Earthworks
Carlton Castle
Castle Hill
Caxton Castle
Cheveley Castle
Chippingham Castle
Diddington Castle
Eaton Socon Castle
Elton Hall
Ely Castle
Fordham Castle
Great Staughton Castle
Grove Moated Castle
Hartford Castle
Herewards Castle
Huntingdon Castle
John O'Gaunts Castle Earthworks
Kimbolton Castle
Kings Ripton Castle
Kirtling Towers
Maxey Castle
Northborough Castle
Orrwell Castle
Peterborough Castle
Rampton Castle
Southoe Castle
St Neots Castle
Swaversey Castle
The Moats
Tout Hill
Woodcroft Castle
Woodwalton Castle

[edit] Cheshire

Name Key Comments
Aldford Castle Earthworks and fragments of stonework
Beeston Castle Image:EH icon.png
Chester Castle Image:EH icon.png
Cholmondeley Castle Privately owned. Grounds and chapel open at advertised times.
Dodlestone Castle
Frodsham Castle Completely covered by Castle Park House.
Halton Castle Owned by the Duchy of Lancaster; managed by the Norton Priory Trust on behalf of Halton Borough Council
Kingsley Castle Earthworks only
Malpas Castle
Nantwich Castle
Oldcastle
Peckforton Castle Privately owned
Pulford Castle Earthworks only
Runcorn Castle Site occupied by southern abutment of Runcorn Railway Bridge.
Shipbrook Castle
Shocklach Castle
Shotwick Castle Earthworks only

[edit] Co. Durham

Name Key Comments
Auckland Castle Seat of the Bishop of Durham
Barnard Castle Image:EH icon.png Ruin
Bowes Castle Image:EH icon.png Ruin
Brancepeth Castle Belonging to the University of Durham
Cotherstone Castle
Durham Castle University College, Durham
Lumley Castle Earl of Scarbrough
Raby Castle Neville-Vanes, Lord Barnard

[edit] Cornwall

Name Key Comments
Launceston Castle Image:EH icon.png
Pendennis Castle Image:EH icon.png former Crown Fortress
Restormel Castle Image:EH icon.png
St Mawes Castle Image:EH icon.png former Crown Fortress
St Michael's Mount Image:NTE icon.png
Tintagel Castle Image:EH icon.png

[edit] Cumbria

Name Key Comments
Aldingham Castle
Appleby Castle privately owned
Armathwaite Castle Pele tower, privately owned
Askerton Castle
Bew Castle privately owned
Brough Castle Image:EH icon.png
Brougham Castle Image:EH icon.png
Carlisle Castle Image:EH icon.png
Cockermouth Castle
Dacre Castle privately owned
Dalton Castle Image:NTE icon.png
Egremont Castle Image:EH icon.png
Fouldry (Fouldrey) Castle
Gleaston Castle privately owned
Greystoke Castle privately owned
Hartley Castle demolished
Kendal Castle Image:UKAL_icon.png‎
Kirkoswald Castle
Muncaster Castle Lord Muncaster, home of the original Tom Fool
Naworth Castle seat of the Howards, Earls of Carlisle
Pendragon Castle privately owned
Penrith Castle Image:EH icon.png
Piel Castle Image:EH icon.png
Sizergh Castle Image:NTE icon.png

[edit] Derbyshire

Name Key Comments
Bakewell Castle Earthworks
Bolsover Castle Image:EH icon.png
Codnor Castle Privately Owned
Duffield Castle Ruins
Holmesfield Castle Ruins
Horston Castle Ruins
Melbourne Castle Ruins
Peveril Castle Image:EH icon.png
Pilsbury Castle Earthworks
Riber Castle Ruins

[edit] Devon

Name Key Comments
Berry Pomeroy Castle Image:EH icon.png
Bampton Castle Earthworks
Barnstaple Castle Earthworks
Bickleigh Castle
Compton Castle Image:NTE icon.png
Cranmore Castle
Dartmouth Castle Image:EH icon.png
Castle Drogo Image:NTE icon.png
Gidleigh Castle
Kingswear Castle Privately Owned
Lydford Castle Image:EH icon.png
Okehampton Castle Image:EH icon.png
Plympton Castle ruins
Powderham Castle Earl of Devon
Rougemont Castle (Exeter) Exeter City Council/the Crown
Salcombe Castle
Totnes Castle Image:EH icon.png
Winkleigh Castle ruins

[edit] Dorset

Name Key Comments
Christchurch Castle Image:EH icon.png
Corfe Castle Image:NTE icon.png
Dorchester Castle
Lulworth Castle Image:EH icon.png
Portland Castle Image:EH icon.png
Sandsfoot Castle
Sherborne Castle Image:EH icon.png

Ellie castle

[edit] East Riding of Yorkshire

Name Key Comments
Baynard Castle
Driffield Castle
Hull Castle
Skipsea Castle Image:EH icon.png

[edit] East Sussex

Name Key Comments
Bodiam Castle Image:NTE icon.png
Camber Castle Image:EH icon.png
Hastings Castle Local Authority
Herstmonceux Castle Privately Owned
Lewes Castle Image:EH icon.png
Pevensey Castle Image:EH icon.png
Ypres Tower, Rye Privately Owned

[edit] Essex

Name Key Comments
Clavering Castle Remains of possible pre-Norman earthworks
Colchester Castle Run as a museum by the local authority
Great Canfield Castle Remains of earthworks of motte-and-bailey castle
Hadleigh Castle Image:EH icon.png
Hedingham Castle Privately Owned
Ongar Castle
Pleshey Castle
Rayleigh Castle Remains of earthworks of motte-and-bailey castle
Rochford Castle Privately Owned
Walden Castle Privately Owned

[edit] Gloucestershire

Name Key Comments
Berkeley Castle Privately Owned, open to the public in summer
Beverstone Castle
Bledisloe Tump
Brimpsfield Castle
Bury Manor Castle Image:EH icon.png Privately Owned, now a guest house
Castle Hale, Painswick
Castle Tump, Dymock
Cirencester Castle
English Bicknor Castle
Gloucester Castle
Hailes Castle, Stanway
Haresfield Mount
Holme Castle, Tewkesbury
Little Camp Hill, Lydney
Littledean Camp
Miserden Castle
Newington Bagpath Motte, Kingscote
Newnham on Severn Castle House
Ruardean Castle
South Cerney Castle
Stow Green, St Briavels
St Briavel's Castle Image:EH icon.png
Sudeley Castle Privately Owned
Taynton Castle
Thornbury Castle Privately Owned, converted to a hotel
Weston Park, Saintbury
Winchcombe Castle

[edit] Greater London

Name Key Comments
Baynard's Castle
Lollard's Tower within Lambeth Palace
Montfichet's Castle
Tower of London Historic Royal Palaces

[edit] Greater Manchester

Name Key Comments
Buckton Castle
Bury Castle
Dunham Castle
Manchester Castle
Radcliffe Tower
Rochdale Castle
Stockport Castle
Ullerwood Castle
Watch Hill Castle

[edit] Hampshire

Name Key Comments
Ashley Castle Earthworks and fragments of stonework
Calshot Castle Image:EH icon.png
Hurst Castle Image:EH icon.png
Odiham Castle Privately Owned
Portchester Castle Image:EH icon.png
Southsea Castle Portsmouth City Council
Winchester Castle Hampshire County Council
Wolvesey Castle Image:EH icon.png

[edit] Herefordshire

Name Key Comments
Brampton Bryan Castle
Bredwardine Castle
Bronsil Castle
Clifford Castle
Croft Castle Image:NTE icon.png
Dorstone Castle
Eardisley Castle
Eastnor Castle Privately owned
Ewyas Harold Castle
Goodrich Castle Image:EH icon.png
Hereford Castle
Huntington Castle
Kilpeck Castle
Kington Castle
Longtown Castle Image:EH icon.png
Wigmore Castle Image:EH icon.png
Wilton Castle

[edit] Hertfordshire

Name Key Comments
Anstey Castle Earthworks
Benington Castle
Berkhamsted Castle Image:EH icon.png
Bishop's Stortford Castle
Hertford Castle
Pirton Castle
South Mimms Castle

[edit] Isle of Wight

Name Key Comments
Carisbrooke Castle Image:EH icon.png
Yarmouth Castle Image:EH icon.png

[edit] Isles of Scilly

Name Key Comments
Cromwell's Castle Image:EH icon.png
King Charles's Castle Image:EH icon.png

[edit] Kent

Name Key Comments
Allington Castle Privately owned
Canterbury Castle Local Authority
Chiddingstone Castle Privately owned
Chilham Castle Privately owned
Cooling Castle Privately owned
Deal Castle Image:EH icon.png former Crown Fortress
Dover Castle Image:EH icon.png
Eynsford Castle Image:EH icon.png
Folkestone Castle
Godard's Castle
Hever Castle Privately owned
Kingsgate Castle
Leeds Castle Privately owned
Leybourne Castle Privately owned
Lympne Castle Privately owned
Richborough Castle Image:EH icon.png
Rochester Castle Image:EH icon.png
St Leonard's Tower Image:EH icon.png
Saltwood Castle Privately owned
Sandgate Castle Privately owned
Scotney Castle Image:NTE icon.png
Stone Castle Privately owned
Sutton Valence Image:EH icon.png
Thurnham Castle
Tonbridge Castle Local authority offices
Upnor Castle Image:EH icon.png
Walmer Castle Image:EH icon.png Seat of the Governor of the Cinque Ports
Westenhanger Castle Privately owned

[edit] Lancashire

Name Key Comments
Aldingham Moat Hill Earthworks
Arkholme with Cawood Chapel Hill
Ashton Hall
Borwick Hall
Broughton Tower
Clitheroe Castle Part-time Tourist Attraction
Dalton Castle
Greenhalgh Castle
Halton Castle
Hampsfield Hall Pele
Hapton Castle
Hornby Castle privately owned
Lancaster Castle HM Prison
Maurholme Manor
Melling Motte
Penwortham Castle
Preston Castle
Thurland Castle
Turton Tower
Whittington Motte

[edit] Leicestershire

Name Key Comments
Ashby de la Zouch Castle Image:EH icon.png Ruins
Belvoir Castle Seat of the Duke of Rutland
Donington Castle
Groby Castle
Hallaton Castle
Kirby Muxloe Castle Image:EH icon.png
Sauvey Castle

[edit] Lincolnshire

Name Key Comments
Bolingbroke Castle Image:EH icon.png
Bourne Castle
Bytham Castle
Carlton Castle
Grimsthorpe Castle Owned by a private trust
Kingerby Castle
Kinnard's Ferry Castle
Lincoln Castle Image:EH icon.png jointly owned, English Heritage & Lincolnshire County Council
Owston Ferry Castle
Tattershall Castle Image:NTE icon.png

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[edit] Merseyside

Name Comments
Liverpool Castle Demolished, 18th Century. Full scale replica is located in the village of Rivington on the West Pennine Moors near Chorley
West Derby Castle

[edit] Norfolk

Name Comments
Baconsthorpe Castle Image:EH icon.png Fortified manor house in ruins
Buckenham Castle Ruins
Burgh Castle Image:EH icon.png
Caister Castle
Castle Acre Castle Image:EH icon.png
Castle Rising Castle Image:EH icon.png
Claxton Castle
Horsford Castle
North Elmham Castle Earthworks and Ruins
Norwich Castle
Thetford Castle Earthworks
Weeting Castle Image:EH icon.png
Wormegay Castle

[edit] Northamptonshire

Name Comments
Barnwell Castle Ruins. Privately owned
Benefield Castle
Fotheringhay Castle Earthworks left, English Civil War sleighting
Rockingham Castle owner, James Saunders Watson

[edit] Northumberland

Name Key Comments
Alnwick Castle The Duke of Northumberland
Ancroft Castle
Aydon Castle Image:EH icon.png Fortified manor house
Bamburgh Castle Lord Armstrong
Belsay Castle Image:EH icon.png
Berwick Castle Image:EH icon.png
Bitchfield Castle
Blenkinsop Castle privately owned
Bothal Castle privately owned
Bywell Castle privately owned
Callaly Castle
Cartington Castle privately owned
Chillingham Castle Earl Grey
Chipchase Castle privately owned
Cocklepark Tower
Corbridge Vicar's Pele
Coupland Castle
Craster Castle
Cresswell Castle
Dunstanburgh Castle Image:EH icon.png
Edlingham Castle Image:EH icon.png
Elsdon Castle
Embleton Tower
Etal Castle Image:EH icon.png
Featherstone Castle privately owned
Ford Castle privately owned
Halton Castle
Harbottle Castle Northumberland National Park Authority
Haughton Castle
Langley Castle privately owned
Lindisfarne Castle Image:NTE icon.png
Norham Castle Image:EH icon.png
Prudhoe Castle Image:EH icon.png
Thirlwall Castle Northumberland National Park Authority
Warkworth Castle Image:EH icon.png although looked after by English Heritage, partly ownned by The Duke of Northumberland

[edit] North Yorkshire

Name Key Comments
Barden Tower Privately Owned
Bolton Castle Privately Owned
Burton in Lonsdale Castle
Buttercrambe Castle
Cawood Castle
Clifford's Tower Image:EH icon.png
Gilling Castle Privately Owned
Helmsley Castle Image:EH icon.png
Hornby Castle Privately Owned
Knaresborough Castle Privately Owned
Marmion Tower Image:EH icon.png
Middleham Castle Image:EH icon.png
Pickering Castle Image:EH icon.png
Richmond Castle Image:EH icon.png
Scarborough Castle Image:EH icon.png
Sheriff Hutton Castle privately owned
Skipton Castle Privately Owned
Spofforth Castle Image:EH icon.png

[edit] Nottinghamshire

Name Key Comments
Aslockton Castle Earthworks
Cuckney Castle
Kirkby Castle No visible remains
Newark Castle Newark (district)
Nottingham Castle Nottingham City Council

[edit] Oxfordshire

Name Key Comments
Ardley Castle Earthworks
Ascot d'Oilly Castle Fragment remains
Bampton Castle Parts of castle incorporated into a house
Banbury Castle Nothing now to be seen
Brightwell Castle
Broughton Castle
Deddington Castle Image:EH icon.png
Faringdon Castle
Hinton Waldrist Castle
Oxford Castle
Wallingford Castle

[edit] Rutland

Name Key Comments
Burley Castle

[edit] Shropshire

Name Key Comments
Acton Burnell Castle Image:EH icon.png Fortified manor house in ruins
Alberbury Castle Ruins
Bishop's Castle
Bridgnorth Castle
Bryn Amlwg Castle
Caus Castle
Charlton Castle
Cheney Longville Castle
Cleobury Castle
Clun Castle Image:EH icon.png
Ellesmere Castle
Holdgate Castle
Hopton Castle
Knockin Castle
Ludlow Castle Earl of Powis
Moreton Corbet Castle Image:EH icon.png
Oswestry Castle Ruins
Shrewsbury Castle Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council
Stokesay Castle Image:EH icon.png
Tyrley Castle Ruins
Whittington Castle

[edit] Somerset

Name Key Comments
Bridgwater Castle
Cadbury Castle Iron Age hill fort
Cary Castle
Castle Neroche
Crewkerne Castle
Daw's Castle Image:EH icon.png
Dunster Castle Image:NTE icon.png
Farleigh Hungerford Castle Image:EH icon.png
Midford Castle Privately owned folly
Nunney Castle Image:EH icon.png
Stowey Castle
Taunton Castle now houses the Somerset County Museum

[edit] South Yorkshire

Name Key Comments
Conisbrough Castle Image:EH icon.png
Manor Castle
Sheffield Castle
Tickhill Castle Privately Owned

[edit] Staffordshire

Name Key Comments
Alton Castle Privately Owned
Audley Castle Public Open Space
Caverswall Castle Privately Owned
Chartley Castle Privately Owned
Eccleshall Castle
Stafford Castle Stafford Borough Council
Tamworth Castle Privately Owned
Tutbury Castle Privately Owned

[edit] Suffolk

Name Key Comments
Bungay Castle owned by a trust on behalf of the town of Bungay
Clare Castle
Eye Castle
Framlingham Castle Image:EH icon.png
Haughley Castle
Milden Castle Earthworks
Orford Castle Image:EH icon.png

[edit] Surrey

Name Key Comments
Abinger Castle Earthworks
Betchworth Castle
Bletchingley Castle
Broomhall Copse
Farnham Castle Image:EH icon.png
Guildford Castle Privately Owned
Reigate Castle
Starborough Castle
Walton-on-the-Hill

[edit] Tyne and Wear

Name Key Comments
Hylton Castle Image:EH icon.png
Newcastle Castle Keep Newcastle City Council
Tynemouth Castle Image:EH icon.png Housing a ruined priory within

[edit] Warwickshire

Name Key Comments
Beaudesert Castle
Brandon Castle
Brinklow Castle
Hartshill Castle Privately Owned
Kenilworth Castle Image:EH icon.png
Warwick Castle Privately Owned

[edit] West Midlands

Name Key Comments
Bromwich Castle
Coventry Castle
Dudley Castle
Weoley Castle Birmingham City Council

[edit] West Sussex

Name Key Comments
Amberley Castle privately owned
Arundel Castle The Duke of Norfolk
Bramber Castle Image:EH icon.png
Chichester Castle
Knepp Castle

[edit] West Yorkshire

Name Key Comments
Almondbury Castle Earthworks with public access
Barwick-in-Elmet Castle Earthworks
Pontefract Castle
Sandal Castle Ruins with visitor centre
Sowerby Castle 12th to 14th century

[edit] Wiltshire

Name Key Comments
Ashton Keynes Castle Earthworks
Barbury Castle Earthworks
Castle Combe Castle
Devizes Castle
Ludgershall Castle Image:EH icon.png
Marlborough Castle Ruins and earthworks mound
Old Sarum Image:EH icon.png
Old Wardour Castle Image:EH icon.png

[edit] Worcestershire

Name Key Comments
Elmley Castle Remains of Earthworks only
Hanley Castle Earthworks only
Homme Castle Earth mounds only
Inkberrow Castle Mount and Earthworks only

[edit] See also

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