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Triermain Castle, Waterhead
Triermain Castle
locality:-   Triermain
civil parish:-   Waterhead (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   castle
locality type:-   earthwork
locality type:-   pele tower (?) 
coordinates:-   NY59476680
1Km square:-   NY5966
10Km square:-   NY56


photograph
BOW20.jpg  Not a lot left.
(taken 21.3.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 12 7) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Tryermain / Castle (Remains of)"

evidence:-   text:- Curwen 1913
placename:-  Treuermane
item:-  licence to crenellate
source data:-   Book, The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913.
Licence to crenellate granted by Edward III; 4 February 1340:-  "Robertus de Vaux ... mansum suum ... Treuermane in Marchi' Scotiae"

evidence:-   text:- Jackson 1990
placename:-  Trevermane castle
placename:-  Trivermain castle
placename:-  Tradermayne Castle
placename:-  Tridermaine castle
source data:-  

hearsay:-  
Roland de Vaux had a licence to crenellate, 1340.

notes:-  
tower, gateway, curtain wall, moat, all in ruins

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration

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