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Built about 1380 by Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester.
©Keith Nolan
Dist:0.2km<br/>Built for Sir Thomas Percy about 1380. Much of the castle was destroyed by Parliamentarians in 1650.
©Jonathan Thacker
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking north-northeast across the River Derwent at dusk. The Wressle Castle ruins were once part of a larger building begun in around 1380 by Sir Thomas Percy, brother of the Earl of Northumberland. Thomas Percy lost his head for siding with his brother Henry Percy who led a rebel army against King Henry IV at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. The castle was later occupied by parliamentary forces during the English Civil War, and in 1648 they dismantled most of the building leaving two corner towers and one of the four ranges which connected them. What remained of the castle was occupied until 1796 when it was gutted by a fire. There is currently no general public access to Wressle Castle which is situated on a working farm owned by the Falkingham family.
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:0.2km<br/>Only the south range with Lord's Tower & Chapel Tower still stand. The chapel was in use as the local church until it was gutted by fire (along with the rest of the building) in February 1796.
©Matthew Hatton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Photograph taken from the roadside
©bernard bradley
Dist:0.2km<br/>It seems a shame to allow such a splendid building to fall apart.
©Roger Gilbertson
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©Gordon Kneale Brooke
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©Glyn Drury
Dist:0.2km<br/>The bridge to the right hand side is the Rail Bridge, which crosses the River Derwent.
©Michael Jagger
Dist:0.2km<br/>Carries the Hull to Selby line
©Martin Dawes
Dist:0.2km<br/>Built for the York to Hull line in the 1880's it is of brick and girder construction with some simple sandstone detailing mid way up the abutments. It is a fairly busy line, with 5 trains passing over it in the 10mins I was here.
©Matthew Hatton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Flowing very fast and fully laden with silt after heavy summer rain the Derwent passes under the York to Hull line.
©Matthew Hatton
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©Martin Dawes
Dist:0.4km<br/>Built in 1799 to replace the chapel used as the parish church in the East tower of Wressle Castle which had been gutted by fire in 1796. It was built on the site of the medieval church which was said to have been destroyed during the English Civil War by Parliamentarians. The church is built of brick, laid in English-garden-wall bond, with ashlar plinth and dressings with a Westmorland-slate roof. It has a thin tower with prominent stone battlements and round-arched belfry openings. The round-arched windows in the church were Gothicized in 1873.
©Matthew Hatton

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