More information : [SE 21965455] JOHN OF GAUNT'S CASTLE [G.T.] (Remains of) (1)
John of Gaunt's Castle was probably a hunting lodge in the Honour of Knaresborough. There is a square platform enclosed by a ditch and on it a small mound which carried a tower. There are remains of a stone gateway to the south. Works at Haverah are mentioned in 1334, which is about the date of the existing remains. (2)
Scheduled under castles. (3)
Resurveyed at 1:2500 A moated enclosure with some stone remains on the central platform, and a well preserved dry ditch. The site commands an extensive view of the park in which it is situated. Its purpose, therefore, seems eminently suitable as a hunting lodge, and compares with a similar such lodge at SJ 973 721 (See "Md. Park site at Toothill" Trans. Lancs. & Ches. A.S. 1960 p. 84). (4)
No change. (5)
SE 219 545. John of Gaunt's Castle. Scheduled No NY/134. (6)
SE 21955435. Records from 1333 state that the lodge contained a hall, a chapel, a queen's chamber and was roofed with lead. Two stone chambers, built into the south east of the outer bank around the moat, are interpreted as being for root crop storage, game or ice. They are associated with the post medieval farm complex which lies adjacent to the site. Scheduled. (8)
A`doums de Hewra' is first documented in royal records in 1300 when its buildings were repaired, and in 1316 it was converted to a `fortalice' as a protection against the Scots. In 1331 when Edward III gave the honour of Knaresborough to his Queen, Philippa, he retained Haywra as a stud farm. A description of the site in 1331 suggests that all the buildigs with the exception of a hall were within a single tower, similar to the Northern peel towers. Haywra passed to John of Gaunt in 1372. (9)
Small earthwork. Tower with projecting gatehouse on a lightly defended platform. First recorded in 1316. (10)
Short note following a survey by EDAS in 2007. (11)
A broad moated enclosure with outer bank, large square building platform and the low structural remains of the gatehouse are visible as earthworks and structures on the air photos and on lidar imagery. This monument is partially overlain with features associated with a later farmstead (see UID1582409), a post medieval wall for example runs along the top of the moat's outer bank. (12-14)
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