Castle
Pickering Castle
ENG England
Pickering Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortification in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. The original castle was made of timber, and the later stone castle was a temporary prison for Richard II in 1399.
The castle is owned by the Duchy of Lancaster and managed by English Heritage.
Text adapted from “Pickering Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pickering Castle ranks #4,088 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #178 of the 181 mapped in England. See how England compares in the castle statistics.
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