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Le château en bref
Upsall Castle is a fourteenth-century quadrangular castle, now in ruins. It stands in the hamlet of Upsall, at the foot of the Hambleton Hills, near Thirsk. It was a fortified residence built around a courtyard. A Victorian house and a terraced garden now cover much of its remains. The site is protected as a Scheduled Monument, and some of its walls are also Grade II listed.
Geoffrey Scrope acquired the manor in 1327 and probably began the building work, which his son Henry continued. The castle resembles the one the same family built at Bolton, in Wensleydale. Historic England suggests that it may be the work of the master mason John Lewyn. A Norman castle may have preceded it, but no visible trace of it survives. The site is mentioned in 1392, and the Crown granted the site in 1576. Partly dismantled during the Civil War, the castle was in ruins by 1660. A manor house succeeded it, itself replaced in 1876 by the present house, while the ruins were incorporated into a landscaped garden.
The basement appears to be well preserved, and the full plan is thought to survive below ground, covering about 85 m by 65 m. Still visible are the sandstone retaining walls on the west and south sides, at least 4 m high, a D-shaped bastion about 8 m high on the west side, and the ground floor of the Kitchen Tower, now converted into a sunken garden.
