The Castle Guide – a selection of castles from around the UK
There are now over 1100 Scottish castles in this guide, over 300 Welsh castles, all sorted alphabetically. Please use the search box below to select a castle name, country, a clan or family name, or a town to see what’s within a few miles. Just type in your search term, select what you are searching by, and away you go!
Beaumont Motte was a short lived motte type castle constructed perhaps in the 12th century and abandoned by the late 13th when St Marys Church was built on top of it. The earthwork is clearly visible.
- Closest To: Beaumont, Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle
- Access: Free Public Access
- Grid Reference: NY348593
Bebside Hall, scant remains of a manorial complex strengthened after the Reformation within a private garden
- Closest To: Bedlington, Blyth
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NZ270809
Bedford Castle Glamorgan, e/w of embanked enclosure with low mound may be ?C15 manorial site
- Closest To: Llanmaes
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SS980693
Bedlay Castle, privately occupied C16 tower house of the Boyds extended C17 by Robertons
- Closest To: Moodiesburn, Muirhead, Chryston, Kirkintilloch, Stepps, Gartcosh, Cumbernauld
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NS692701
Beetham Castle Hill is an irregular D-shaped flat-topped mound on top of a prominent ridge in parkland near Dallam Tower. It is defensively sited, and there was both a ditch and perimeter bank, but if intended as a motte or ringwork it was never finished as the northern side is undefended and easy to access.
- Closest To: Milnthorpe, Storth, Beetham
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SD494808
Beetham Hall is a house and farm complex with a ruined tower house and vestiges of walled courtyard ranges dating back to the 17th century rebuild. The tower is older. The site is in use as a crematorium, and there may be access from this business.
- Closest To: Beetham, Milnthorpe, Holme
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: SD500791
Beganston Castle or Leckwith, mutilated e/w of ringwork on low spur with no history
- Closest To: Cardiff
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: ST147744
Beldorney Castle, occupied C16 tower house of the Gordons extended C17 with wings and courtyard
- Closest To: Glass, Huntly
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NJ424369
Belhelvie Lodge, privately occupied C18 mansion built for the Lumsdens extended C19 and C20
- Closest To: Belhelvie, Balmedie, Bridge of Don
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NJ943171
Bellingham Castle, earthworks of a twelfth century castle sacked by the Scots and abandoned in the 14th century
- Closest To: Bellingham, Redesmouth
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NY841833
Bellister Castle, ruins of an early tower reworked into a later mansion on a scarped mound.
- Closest To: Haltwhistle
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NY701630
Belmont castle, a large C18 mansion modified C19 and incorporating a C16 tower of the Bishops of Dunkeld. Private.
- Closest To: Meigle,Alyth,Blairgowrie,Coupar Angus,Rattray
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NO286439
Belsay Castle, ruins of a massive 14th century tower of the Middletons with ruins of later mansion alongside.
- Closest To: Belsay, Ponteland
- Access: Chargeable Public Access
- Grid Reference: NZ08487855
Bemersyde House, occupied C16 tower of the Haigs, extended multiple times. Grounds occasionally open
- Closest To: Melrose, Newtown St Boswells, St Boswells
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NT592334
Benholm Castle, ruined C15/16 tower of the Lundies and adjacent ruined C18 mansion of the Keiths
- Closest To: Inverbervie
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NO804705
Benholms Lodge, unoccupied but private C17 tower house of the Keiths extended C18 and relocated c1971
- Closest To: Aberdeen
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NJ935089
Benson Hall is a 17th/18th century building, now a farmhouse. Within is evidence of an earlier building interpreted as a modified and extended tower.
- Closest To: Kendal
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SD54019423
Benthead Motte, a low ditched motte of modest size overlooking the Annan valley
- Closest To: Thornhill
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NX922958
Bentley Moat Hills is a complex of two substantial moated enclosures. These are all that survives of a large manor which was surrounded by a stone wall and may have had a gatehouse. The site is left fallow but does not appear to bew accessible to the public.
- Closest To: England
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SE573060
Benton Castle, small privately occupied courtyard castle restored C20 on private estate
- Closest To: Pembroke, Neyland, Llangwm
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SN005068
Bergh Castle is the name given to a large quadrangular moat with internal bank now occupied by Cornbrough Manor House seemingly divided into two courtyards although the dividing earthwork is not complete.
- Closest To: England
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SE629670
Berriedale Castle, much ruined C15 tower and courtyard of the Sutherlands/Oliphants and later Sinclairs occupying coastal promontory
- Closest To: Helmsdale,Berriedale,Dunbeath
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: ND121224
Berwick Castle, ruins of C12-15 royal castle in strong position over River Tweed, in English hands since 1482
- Closest To: Berwick on Tweed
- Access: Free Public Access
- Grid Reference: NT994534
Bewcastle is a modest rectangular courtyard acting as a shell keep, within the earthworks of a Roman fort and upon the site of an eariler timber castle. It was repeatedly decaying and repaired until the 16th century, and last garrisonned in 1639.
- Access: Free Public Access
- Grid Reference: NY566747
Bewley Castle is the ruined remains of a fortified manor of the Bishops of Carlisle sat next to a working farmyard. Much of what survives is most likely late 14th century.
- Closest To: Appleby-in-Westmorland, Kings Meaburne
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NY648212