Since its construction, around the year 1214, Mulgrave Castle has been the home of the de Mauley family, of the Bigod family, of the Radcliffe family, and of Edmund Lord Sheffield, president of the Council of the North and a veteran of the fight against the Spanish Armada.

It served as a prison for the unhappy captives of the de Mauley's master, King John, and as a base for widespread poaching, cattle raiding, and worse. The last Peter de Mauley left the Castle to his wife, Matilda; it was said at the time to be worth nothing. Lord Sheffield, in about 1600, converted the neglected buildings into a hunting-lodge which, over forty years later, he was called upon to re-fortifiy against a Royalist force. The Castle was besieged twice during the Civil War and then blown up.

In 1743 the Mulgrave Estate was inherited by the Phipps familiy and in 1792 the Castle and the sourrounding woodland were viewed by the landscape architect Humphrey Repton. At his suggestion the ruins were romanticised by the Earl of Mulgrave. In order to halt the steady disappearance of the Castle, a programme of repair and consolidation was begun in 1995 and finished in 1999.

Wandering Cloud

August 15, 2023

These romantic castle ruins are too good to miss. The castle was built around 1214, and has since been used as a prison, a place for poaching and a hunting lodge. Set in the beautiful Mulgrave Woods.

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