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Neville Castle refers to the largely buried remains of a late medieval manorial residence on the north side of the small town of Kirkbymoorside, south of the North York Moors. The site is thought to have replaced the moated manor house on Vivier's Hill, about 500 m to the south-east, as the main seat of the manor.
The Nevilles, one of the great families of northern England, held the manor from the early 15th century until 1569, when it was forfeited to the Crown after the rebellion of Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland, a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, during the Rising of the North. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as "the Kingmaker", was among the family's holders. A description of 1570 presents the site as a hunting lodge set in a park whose boundary measured about 2.5 miles.
Excavations in the early 1960s and again in 1974 revealed a cruck-framed timber hall occupied until the end of the 15th century, later replaced by a more ambitious group of stone buildings arranged around a courtyard. Surviving today are a section of rubble wall about 6 m high, wall bases including those of an oriel window, a fireplace and a doorway, and a circular oven, spread across private gardens and a field; the rest is preserved below ground.
