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© Mr Roy Finch LRPS
IoE Number:
182766
Location:
CLITHEROE CASTLE, CASTLE GATE (south west side)
CLITHEROE, RIBBLE VALLEY, LANCASHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Roy Finch LRPS
Date Photographed:
19 April 2002
Date listed:
19 May 1950
Date of last amendment:
19 May 1950
Grade
I
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CASTLE GATE
1.
5295 (South-West Side)
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Clitheroe Castle
SD 7441 1/2 19.5.50.
GV
2.
A castle noted in Domesday Book. Consists principally of a small C12 square tower
keep with flat corner turrets, 1 of which contains a staircase. Entrance, originally
into the 2nd storey, is now by breaches into the ground storey. All floors appear
to have been of wood. The keep is advantageously placed on a steep crag. The inner
bailey must have been to the South and fragments of ancient walls and masonry are
to be seen in the park and incorporated into buildings, stables and offices (qv).
AM.
Clitheroe Castle, Premises occupied by Ribble Valley Borough Council and Outbuilding and
Stable block form a group.