Penrith Castle

Penrith castle is a now-ruined medieval fortress positioned in Penrith, in the north-west of England, some miles to the east of the Lake District National Park. The website online of the castle, in the west of the town is possibly to had been a Roman encampment, as it has an irregular and quadrilateral format. Penrith Castle become constructed between 1399 and 1470 as a defence in opposition to Scottish raids; it has been stated that, not like so a lot of its opposite numbers inside the north, 'the building famous no indication of very ancient date'. The lordship of Penrith turned into created in 1397 as a furnish to the newly created earl of Westmorland, however the fortress become first cited in a supply of 1437.

Previously believed to had been first constructed with the aid of William Strickland who later emerge as Bishop of Carlisle, the lateness of this reference, it has been cautioned, suggests that the most likely builder was Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury. However, it isn't recognised whether this changed into ‘new work on a sparkling site, or whether he absolutely utilized Strickland’s works as the center of his building’. It is now taken into consideration much more likely that Strickland constructed Hutton Hall, close to the church in Penrith, instead, and moreover that a 'tenurial reconstruction shows that he did not maintain the fortress website online'.