Cawood Castle
North Yorkshire, England
Cawood Castle is a quadrangular castle in North Yorkshire, England, first built in 1378. It is a scheduled monument. The nearest other castle is Duffield Castle, 7.3 mi away.
Cawood Castle at a glance
Built
1378
14th century
Type
Quadrangular castle
Heritage status
scheduled monument
Grade I listed building
Nearest castle
Duffield Castle
7.3 mi away
About Cawood Castle
Cawood Castle is a grade I listed building in Cawood, a village in North Yorkshire, England. The surviving fifteenth-century structures formed part of a fortified medieval palace belonging to the Archbishops of York, which was dismantled in the aftermath of the English Civil War.
From the Wikipedia article on Cawood Castle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cawood Castle sits at 53.8313, -1.1297 in North Yorkshire. The closest other castles are Duffield Castle (7.3 mi), Hazlewood Castle (7.8 mi) and Baile Hill (8.7 mi). North Yorkshire has 43 castles in all.
