Crayke Castle

📍 North Yorkshire, England

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About

Crayke Castle is a Grade I listed 15th-century castle in Crayke, North Yorkshire, England. The castle consists of a restored 15th-century four-storey tower house with attached outbuildings to the rear and a separate ruined 15th-century tower, the "New Tower". It is situated on Church Hill in the village of Crayke.

A castle here since the Norman Conquest, attributed to Bishop Hugh Pudsey. The present building constructed around 1450 for Robert Neville, Bishop of Durham, on land held by the See since Saxon times. Slighted during the Civil War siege of York. Sold in 1648 and restored. Grade I listed.