Piel Castle

Piel Castle, otherwise called Fouldry Castle or the Pile of Fouldray, is a castle arranged on the south-eastern purpose of Piel Island, off the shore of the Furness Peninsula in north-west England. Worked in the mid fourteenth century by John Cockerham, the Abbot of neighboring Furness Abbey, it was planned to oversea the exchange through the nearby harbor and to ensure against Scottish strikes. The castle was manufactured utilizing stones from the neighborhood shoreline, and included a substantial keep with encompassing inward and external baileys. It was utilized as a base by the Yorkist actor Lambert Simnel in 1487, however by 1534 it had fallen into demolish and gone under the control of the Crown. In 1920 the castle was given to the town of Barrow-in-Furness and is currently under the watchful eye of English Heritage.

The castle is worked to an Edwardian concentric outline, with a keep in the south-eastern corner, secured by an inward and external bailey with stone drape dividers reaching out toward the north-west. The castle is assembled utilizing stones from the nearby shoreline reinforced with a fluid mortar, with the better stonework, for example, the entryways and windows, produced using red ashlar sandstone imported from the territory. A significant part of the encompassing island has been disintegrated by the ocean and a portion of the castle has been lost, with fallen stone pieces still obvious on the shoreline underneath.