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Edlingham Castle

📍 Northumberland, England

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Edlingham Castle is a small castle ruin, having scheduled monument and Grade I listed building status, in the care of English Heritage. It is located in a valley to the west of Alnwick, Northumberland, England. It has been described as "...one of the most interesting in the county", by Nikolaus Pevsner, the architectural historian. Edlingham itself is little more than a hamlet with a church alongside the castle.

The earliest remains date from c.1300 when Sir William Felton built a hall house during a rare lull in border warfare. As Scottish raids intensified through the 14th century, successive owners added a defensive solar tower, gatehouse, and curtain wall. The Swinburne family held it until the 17th century. Now a Scheduled Monument and Grade I listed building in English Heritage care.