Gunnerton Tower, Chollerton
Has been described as a Certain Pele Tower
There are no visible remains
Name | Gunnerton Tower, Chollerton |
Alternative Names | Gonnerton |
Historic Country | Northumberland |
Modern Authority | Northumberland |
1974 Authority | Northumberland |
Civil Parish | Chollerton |
Site of a pele tower recorded in 1541 and 1715. By 1902 only one wall remained standing and by 1966 there was no trace of the structure visible above ground. (PastScape)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid Reference | NY904749 |
Latitude | 55.0692291259766 |
Longitude | -2.15046000480652 |
Eastings | 390490 |
Northings | 574980 |
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Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Newcastle upon Tyne: Keepdate Publishing) p. 347
- King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 349
- Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p. 179
- Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p. 111-12
- Tomlinson, W.W., 1902, Guide to Northumberland (London) p. 211
- Hodgson, John Crawford (ed), 1897, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol. 4 p. 326 online copy
- Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p. 47 (Also published as the whole of volume 14 (series 2) of Archaeologia Aeliana view online)
Journals
- Hodgson, J.C., 1916, 'List of Ruined Towers, Chapels, etc., in Northumberland; compiled about 1715 by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, aided by John Horsley' Archaeologia Aeliana (ser3) Vol. 13 p. 7 abridged transcription
- Bates, C.J., 1891, 'Border Holds of Northumberland' Archaeologia Aeliana (ser2) Vol. 14 p. 47 online copy
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