Blackpool Gate

Has been described as a Certain Bastle

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameBlackpool Gate
Alternative NamesBlackpoolgate; Whelpdale Holme; Bewcastle Fells; Quelpdale; Quelpedale; Holmefoot
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishBewcastle

At Blackpool Gate sited on level ground near the Black Lyne, is one end of a bastle against the outside of which a later building now roofless, has been constructed. The old wall stands only to a height of about 5 ft and is broken away at the ends. It contains a central doorway with a narrow opening 25" wide, between rebated jambs, spanned by a stone lintel. (PastScape ref. Ramm, McDowell and Mercer)

Gatehouse Comments

Shown as Quelpedale on map of 1607.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY534778
Latitude55.0930290222168
Longitude-2.73189997673035
Eastings353400
Northings577850
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Books

  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 48 (plan and photo)
  • Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 102 (slight)
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 91, 95
  • Ramm, H.G., McDowall, R.W. and Mercer, E., 1970, Shielings and Bastles (London: HMSO) p. 76, no. 6
  • Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 13) p. 409 (as a 'small pele')

Journals

  • Graham, T.H.B., 1914, 'The Debatable Land Part II' Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol. 14 facing p. 148 online copy [online copy of 1607 platt > http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/maps/m067.htm] [online copy of 1552 map > http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/maps/m068.htm]