Northumberland's Castles Alnwick Aydon Bamburgh Barmoor (Lowick) Beaufront Belford Bellingham Bellister Belsay Berwick upon Tweed Birtley Blenkinsopp  Bolam Bothal Bywell Callaly Cartington. Chillingham Chipchase Cornhill Coupland Dally Dilston Dunstanburgh Edlingham Elsdon Eshott Etal Featherstone Fenham Ford Gunnerton Haggerston Halton Haltwhistle Harbottle Haughton Castle Heaton Hexham Hirst Horton(Chatton) Langley Lindisfarne Low Horton Lowick Mitford Morpeth Nafferton Newcastle upon Tyne Norham Ogle Otterburn Ponteland Prudhoe Seaton Deleval Sewingshields Shawdon Simonburn Swinburne (Great) Tarset Thirwall Titlington Tweedmouth Twizell Tynemouth Warden Wark on Tweed Wark on tyne Warkworth Whitley Widdrington Willimoteswick Wooler Bill's Castles A Welsh Castle Newport (Pembs) Walks Allen Banks Belford Rothbury Blanchland 1 Blanchland 2 Blawearie Craster Ellingham Etal - River Till Hadrian's Wall 1 Hadrian's Wall 2 Hepburn Woods 1 Hepburn Woods 2 Holy Island Holystone Woods Hulne Park, Rothbury Shaftoe Crags Thirwall Walk 1 Thrunton Woods 1 Thrunton Woods 2 Hadrian's Wall 1 Wall Wark-Redesmouth Warkworth Beach West Woodburn Lakes walks Bowfell Scafell Pike Contact

Heaton Castle Location OS Landranger sheet 74 NT 901419 The Greys aquired a manor here from the de Heton family in the Mid 13th century. The castle is known as Castle Heaton This is a private residence and permission was granted to take the photographs produced here. With many thanks. NM sept 07

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History NT 901419/Traces/Private House Remains of a quadrangular castle founded in 1415 destroyed in 1496 by the Scots and James IV. It was described as ruinous in a survey of 1541 and a later survey advised "a vault that a hundred horses may stand in". Out of use by 1550, although ruins adapted to form bases for large bastle type building with stone vault. In the 1580s there was a dispute between the Greys and the Crown as to who would bear the cost of repairing the Castle as a result of which nothing was done.The surviving remains consist of two buttresses set against the north east wall of the stable and the probable remains of a turret and rampart. The castle stands high above the south bank of the river Till. The site is now covered by farm buildings. Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Heaton near Coldstream; Heton; Old Heaton

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