Flamborough Castle

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Le château en bref

Flamborough Castle, sometimes called the Danish Tower or the Constable tower, is a medieval fortified manor house whose remains occupy a field behind the war memorial on Tower Street, in the heart of the village of Flamborough, on the chalk headland of Flamborough Head. The most visible element is a ruined tower of squared chalk blocks and rubble, originally rectangular, of which only three sides survive to a height of about four metres. One can still make out the springers of a barrel vault that covered the basement, which collapsed because of the deterioration of the mortar, as well as an altered doorway, putlog holes and a latrine chute. Around the tower, earthworks mark the foundations of other buildings arranged around an almost square platform, with enclosures, stock yards and tracks, as well as lime kilns to the east. These traces correspond to an important seigneurial complex: in 1537 it comprised a tower, a hall, parlours, a chapel, a court house, a mill and a large barn. The site, protected both as a scheduled monument and as a Grade II listed building, bears witness to the power of the Constable family in the East Riding at the end of the Middle Ages.