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Tynemouth Castle & Priory

Location OS Landranger sheet 88 NZ 371693

How to get there The castle is at the eastern end of Front street in Tynemouth.

The views of the mouth of the Tyne from the Castle and Priory are first class and a visit is a must.

The castle is in the administration of English Heritage

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The Castle was built to protect the Priory

The Coastguard station for the area is shown behind the modern gun, that is, modern compared to the other cannon on site.

Some pictures of the Priory
And in Tynemouth Front Street !
History

NZ 371693/Ruin/EH

Very strongly fortified monastery, usual described as Castle, on headland with fortification dating from 1095, maintained as coastal fortification after Dissolution. Remains include of curtain of 1296, ruinous gatehouse of 1390's, stone cased ramparts of Elizabeth I. Probably originally a motte. In 1296 Edward I granted the prior and convent a formal licence to crenellate.

Tynemouth Priory; Tiefort; Tynemuth
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