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foundations of the Church, and no plan appears to have been 

 made of them — this is much to be regretted, as it might have 

 settled the question of the Castle Chapel. The vaults which still 

 remain are of very rude construction and are probably parts of the 

 first castle. It is not known when the Castle Avas dismantled, but 

 in Camden's time it was stated to be " old and ruinous." Local 

 tradition says that Cromwell bombarded the Castle, which was 

 held by the Royalists. The Roundheads attacked it first on the 

 East side from Whorl Hill, but found their shot went over the 

 Castle ; they then moved West to a field on the Ingleby road and 

 planted their cannons on the rising ground in the middle of it, 

 and ruined the old feudal pile ; the Protector himself being ill 

 at Northallerton. There is certainly a mark on one of the stones 

 on the East side of the gateway whicli couhl only have l^een made 

 by such an instrument as a cannon ball, the stone being crushed by 

 the blow. There is the usual Avell, and the Castle or moats was 

 supplied with water from Whorl Hill ; the wooden pipes have 

 been seen in digging. 



The inhabitaiits clustered round the Castle for safety, and 

 lived in miserable hovels of wattle and dab. There is a local 

 tradition of a hall having stood in one of the fields on the low 

 road going from the old Church to Faceby, said to have been pulled 

 down in the early part of the last century; this is the only trace of a 

 large house apart from the Castle which I hsLve been able to 

 discover. It was not until a comparatively late period thai; farm 

 liouses were built in this part of Yorkshire away in the fields from 

 the village, owing to the country not being sufficiently settled and 

 safe. In Belgium " the battle ground of Europe," large farm- 

 steads are found almost everywhere, built in a quadrangle and 

 fortified all round ; often, Avith a Avatch tower ; Hougomont on 

 the Field of Waterloo being a good example. 



The Peel Towers, celebrated in jNFarshman's Warfare or Border 

 jNIinstrelsy, the strongholds of men Avho lived by " snaffle, spur 

 and spear," and drove in their cattle Avhen the Scotch made a raid, 

 can scarcely be called fortified farm houses. 



The Castle in the Middle Ages was surrounded Avith an 

 extensive park 



" Time 

 has moulder'd into beauty many a toAver, Avhicli Avhen it froAvnd 

 Avith all its battlements, Avas only terrible." . . (Mason.) 



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