Clitheroe Castle in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England is a motte and bailey castle built in a natural carboniferous limestone outcrop, grid reference SD742416. Clitheroe is a town and Civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland nA motte-and-bailey is a form of Castle. Many were built in Britain, Ireland and France in the 11th and 12th centuries favored as a relatively The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude
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. de Lacy (Lascy Lacie Lacey Lacy is the surname of an old Norman noble family originating from Lassy (Calvados. It consists of one of the smallest keeps in the country and at one time it was surrounded by a curtain wall. A keep is a strong central Tower which is used as a dungeon or a fortress Curtain wall is a term used to describe a building Façade which does not carry any dead load from the building other than its own dead load
There is a legend that the Devil threw a boulder from Pendle Hill and hit the castle creating the hole you can see today. Pendle Hill is located in the north-east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Colne, Nelson and Clitheroe
It is freely open to the public and in the bailey is a museum, the Clitheroe Castle Museum, which does have an admission charge. A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development open to the public which acquires conserves researches communicates and exhibits the
References
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