Skelton Village Defences

Has been described as a Certain Urban Defence

There are earthwork remains

NameSkelton Village Defences
Alternative Names
Historic CountryYorkshire
Modern AuthorityRedcar & Cleveland
1974 AuthorityCleveland
Civil ParishSkelton And Brotton

Wide ditch around castle (Crazy Castle and village including parish church at given map reference.

Gatehouse Comments

Not specified as village enclosure in PastScape, but probably included with castle record.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNZ652190
Latitude54.562328338623
Longitude-0.992479979991913
Eastings465247
Northings519032
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Books

  • Oliver Creighton and Stephen Rippon, 2017, 'Conquest, colonisation and the countryside: archaeology and the mid-11th- to mid-12th-century rural landscape' in Dawn M Hadley and Christopher Dyer, The Archaeology of the 11th Century Continuities and Transformations (Routledge) p. 57-87
  • Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p. 268
  • Turner, Maurice, 2004, Yorkshire Castles: Exploring Historic Yorkshire (Otley: Westbury Publishing) p. 247
  • Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Yorkshire (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 93
  • Jackson, M.J., 1996, Castles of Durham and Cleveland (Carlisle) p. 54-5 (plan)
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 525, 535
  • Beresford, M. and Finberg, H.P.R., 1973, English Medieval Boroughs: a handlist (David and Charles) p. 188

Journals

  • Creighton, Oliver, 2006, ''Castles of Communities': Medieval Town Defences in England; Wales and Gascony' Château Gaillard Vol. 22 p. 75-86
  • Creighton, O.H., 2004, ''The Rich Man in his Castle, The Poor Man at His Gate': Castle Baileys and Settlement Patterns in Norman England' Cha^teau Gaillard Vol. 21 p. 25-36
  • Screeton, A., 2001, 'Skelton village, history and excavation' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 73 p. 3-18
  • I'Anson, W.M., 1913, 'The castles of the North Riding' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 22 p. 380-90 (plan)

Other

  • Creighton, O.H., 1998, Castles and Landscapes: An Archaeological Survey of Yorkshire and the East Midlands (PhD Thesis University of Leicester) p. 288, 292 online copy