Knaresborough Castle
This was a site worth seeing even if it was shut and we could only walk around the grounds. It was November so the Poppies had been erected for the memorials and it was just such a beautiful evening of exploring. We'd love to go back to see inside the castle and explore the underground bit! But let's move onto the history... Back in the 1100s a Norman baron decided he wanted to build a castle on the cliff above the River Nidd. Henry I approved this and ordered the work which is why we know this, and then later there is evidence that Hugh de Moreville and his men used the castle as refuge in the 1170s after they murdered Thomas Becket. So we know that the castle has stood there for quite some time pretty much intact. During the Easter of 1173 William de Stuteville was made Governor of the castle until his death in 1203 at which point King John gave custody of all Stuteville's lands, castles, and his son Robert, to the Archbishop of Canterbury of the time, Hubert Walter. Un...
