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Linglands Castle, Cloughton

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte)

There are no visible remains

Name	Linglands Castle, Cloughton
Alternative Names	Linglands Farm; Castlebeck
Historic Country	Yorkshire
Modern Authority	North Yorkshire
1974 Authority	North Yorkshire
Civil Parish	Cloughton

Possible motte ploughed out before 1967. Castlebeck place-names in the area. (Jackson)

Situation: The site lies c. 540m north of Linglands Farm, at the base of the scarp forming the edge of Cloughton Moor.

Preservation: The site is preserved as an earthwork under permanent pasture.

Description: The feature comprises a bowl-shaped mound entirely surrounded by a dry ditch. Despite common interpretation as a possible motte, its situation in a landscape abounding with tumuli renders identification problematic, the feature seeming more likely to be a barrow. (Creighton 1998)

Moated mound of uncertain date located 540m north of Linglands Farm. Now descheduled. (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

Not an obvious manorial centre, no nearby settlement. Site on hill top. This is an area of numerous bronze age barrows (several dozen are shown on the 1st edition 6" OS map with a mile). Was probably lost before Creighton wrote his description, which will have been based on old OS archaeological record card. Possible castle according to King, although he clearly had serious doubts about this site. Lost now so impossible to be certain but most likely to have been a pre-historic burial mound unusual in preserving its surrounding ditch as a clear feature.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

65636

County Historic Environment Record

www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/discover/archaeology

OS Map Grid Reference	SE987969
Latitude	54.358341217041
Longitude	-0.481900006532669
Eastings	498750
Northings	496930