Staward Pele was originally an early 14th century timber blockhouse and palisaded pele, founded by Antony de Lucy of Langley. Built on the dramatic site of a Roman temple to Jupiter, this impregnable fortress stands on an oval promontory, which is accessed along a narrow causeway.
In 1326 King Edward II, annexed the pele and Thomas de Featherstonehaugh, keeper of Tynedale offered to demolish the pele and build the king a castle. The site passed to Queen Phillippa in 1337 and then to her son Edmund of Langley, Duke of York.
In 1384 Duke of York gave property here to the Friars Eremite of Hexham. In the mid 16th century it went to the Howards and then to the Sandersons, and was later the home of the mining speculator John Bacon. Dickey of Kingswood, a notorious horse thief, lived here c1710.
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