Blagill Bastles and possible tower

Has been described as a Certain Bastle, and also as a Certain Pele Tower

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameBlagill Bastles and possible tower
Alternative Names
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishAlston Moor

Complex of bastles and possible tower. Although Blagill has been substantially altered, the central square structure may have been a tower, enlarged with low two-storey bastles on either side, Additional C18 room to the West. (PastScape ref. Perriam and Robinson)

the steep pitch associated with heather thatch cab been seen in roof scars at ... Blagill. (Jessop and Whitfield)

Gatehouse Comments

There does not seem to be a published history of medieval Blagill but it does not seem to be the site of a gentry status house. The central 'tower' of this bastle complex may actually just have been a square bastle extended several times.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY739474
Latitude54.8202590942383
Longitude-2.40678000450134
Eastings373900
Northings547400
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Books

  • Jessop, Lucy and Whitfield, Matthew, 2013, Alston Moor, Cumbria: Buildings in a North Pennines landscape (English Heritage) p. 33
  • Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 102 (slight)
  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 32-3 (plan)
  • Ryder, Peter, 1996, Bastle Houses in the Northern Pennines (Alston: The North Pennines Heritage Trust) p. 21, 22