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Clitheroe Castle in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England is a motte and bailey castle built on a natural carboniferous limestone outcrop. It has been suggested that Clitheroe Castle may have been first built before 1086 as there is reference to the "castellatu Rogerii pictaviensis" in the Domesday Book. However, it is likely the passage refers to another castle. One alternative is that it was built around 1186 by Robert de Lacy as an administrative centre for his estates in the area but later passed by inheritance to the Crown. It consists of one of the smallest keeps in the country and at one time it was surrounded by a curtain wall. It was anciently the seat of the Lords of Bowland.

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  • Clitheroe Castle
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  • Clitheroe Castle in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England is a motte and bailey castle built on a natural carboniferous limestone outcrop. It has been suggested that Clitheroe Castle may have been first built before 1086 as there is reference to the "castellatu Rogerii pictaviensis" in the Domesday Book. However, it is likely the passage refers to another castle. One alternative is that it was built around 1186 by Robert de Lacy as an administrative centre for his estates in the area but later passed by inheritance to the Crown. It consists of one of the smallest keeps in the country and at one time it was surrounded by a curtain wall. It was anciently the seat of the Lords of Bowland.
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Name
  • Clitheroe Castle
Caption
  • Clitheroe Castle August 2007
designation1 date
  • 1915-04-10(xsd:date)
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  • Lancashire
Designation
  • Grade I Listed Building
  • Scheduled Monument
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  • SD 742416
Image size
  • 180(xsd:integer)
Latitude
  • 53(xsd:double)
Longitude
  • -2(xsd:double)
designation2 date
  • 1950-05-19(xsd:date)
Location
  • Clitheroe, Lancashire
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  • Clitheroe Castle in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England is a motte and bailey castle built on a natural carboniferous limestone outcrop. It has been suggested that Clitheroe Castle may have been first built before 1086 as there is reference to the "castellatu Rogerii pictaviensis" in the Domesday Book. However, it is likely the passage refers to another castle. One alternative is that it was built around 1186 by Robert de Lacy as an administrative centre for his estates in the area but later passed by inheritance to the Crown. It consists of one of the smallest keeps in the country and at one time it was surrounded by a curtain wall. It was anciently the seat of the Lords of Bowland. A document from 1304 mentions ditches and moats surrounding the castle, however these have since been filled in. There is a legend that the Devil threw a boulder from Pendle Hill and hit the castle creating the hole visible in its side today, but this hole was made in 1649 as ordered by the government. It was to be put in "such condition that in might neither be a charge to the Commonwealth to keep it, nor a danger to have it kept against them".
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