The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales; (1892) (14781628954)

Identifier: yorkshirecoastcl00leyl (find matches)
Title: The Yorkshire coast and the Cleveland hills and dales;
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Leyland, John
Subjects: Yorkshire (England) -- Description and travel Cleveland Hills (England)
Publisher: London : Seeley and co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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uation. It is square, and the seaward side is perfect,while parts only of the north and south walls stillstand, and the western side has disappeared altogether,the destruction having mainly been wrought by gun-powder after the siege of 1645. The extreme heightis about 80 feet, and the width some 50 feet, the keepthus being smaller than that at Rochester, to whichit bears a resemblance. Externally there is, excepton the south side, a deep plinth, and the angles hadshafts, as at the Peak Castle in Derbyshire. The keepwas divided into three stories. The entrance was onthe west side, and there are evidences that it wasprotected by a square barbican with a machicoulis.The inner doorway was 7 feet wide, and had a segmentalarch, and, in the thickness of the wall, there 9 feet6 inches, is a staircase leading to the next floor. Earlycastles were often divided transversely by a wall risingto the floor of the uppermost story; but at Scar- * Scarborough Castle, by *C., The Builder, Dec. i6, 1866.
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a O wuz - o D 3 < Scarborough 203 borough its place seems to have been taken at the baseby a round arch rising from corbels in the wall.There was a chamber in the south wall, and, on theeast side, a fireplace with a round head. The chiefapartments were above, and the next floor had twomural chambers and a fireplace, while the uppermoststory seems to have formed one large room. Thewindows have two lights, divided by a shaft, beneatha semicircular arch, inclosing a plain tympanum, andthere are evidences of doorways and machicoulis inthe walls. The rugged curtain wall, which probablybelongs to various periods, extends from the keep onthe south - western face, and has drum turrets atintervals, and the hill has been escarped below it.There are traces of other works adjacent to the keep.The castle yard, or garth, has now an area of aboutseventeen acres, but much of it has crumbled away.There is from it a magnificent view northward alongthe coast, and as far southward as Flam