Whitrigg

Has been described as a Possible Pele Tower, and also as a Possible Bastle

There are no visible remains

NameWhitrigg
Alternative NamesWhitrigge
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishBowness

Tower or stonehouse site.

Shown as a tower symbol on the 1590 map.

Further work necessary to establish the site. (Perriam and Robinson 1998)

Gatehouse Comments

A gentry family called Tiffin are associated with Whitrigg so this could well have represented their home. In which case a solar or chamber tower attached to unfortified hall is possible as is a superior bastle.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY226579
Latitude54.9097900390625
Longitude-3.20877003669739
Eastings322600
Northings557900
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Books

  • Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 99 (slight)
  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 65

Journals

  • Ellis, H., 1829, 'Copy of a manuscript tract addressed to Lord Burghley, illustrative of the Border topography of Scotland, AD 1590, with a platt or map of the Borders taken in the same year' Archaeologia Vol. 22 p. 161-71 online copy

Primary Sources

  • 1590, A Platt of the opposete Borders of Scotland to ye west marches of England (The Aglionby Platt) British Library online Gallery and [Old Cumbria Gazetteer > http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/maps/m048.htm] (see also [Gatehouse Essay 'The Aglionby Platt' > http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/APHome.html])