Bolton Castle
"This grand and grim old castle of the Scropes, which they built in the
days of Richard II., and inhabited with baronial splendour till nearly the
epoch of the Long Parliament, stands on the edge of high, bleak, and barren
moors, on the N. side of Wensleydale, in the N. Riding, three miles from Wensley, and four miles from Middleham Castle, across the river Ure, on the
opposite side of the valley. Above, at the back of the castle, the ground
rises to Stainton Moor, from whence it falls again into the valley of the Swale."
Extract from "The Castles of England: Their Story and Structure" (Archive)
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