Bowes Castle - North Yorkshire (EH)
The castle stands within the north-west corner of a Roman fort which commanded the approach to Stainmore over the Pennines, on the road from York to Carlisle.
The present Keep was probably built between 1171 and 1187. When Scottish invasions took place in the 1170's, the castle was of significance; it was besieged by the Scots in 1174.
Raids from Scotland by Robert the Bruce between 1314 and 1322 caused great disorder in Yorkshire. In 1322, Bowes was besieged and captured by neighbouring Lords and the governor of the castle was killed. By 1341, the castle was reported to be badly in need of repair and of little use. It is thought to have been dismantled and stripped of much of its stone facing in the seventeenth century.