Clitheroe Castle

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Clitheroe Castle in Clitheroe, Lancashire is a motte and bailey castle built in a natural carboniferous limestone outcrop, grid reference SD742416.

It was built around 1186 by Robert de Lacy as an administrative centre for his estates in the area but later passed by inheritance to the Crown. It consists of one of the smallest keeps in the country and at one time it was surrounded by a curtain wall.

It is freely open to the public and in the bailey is a museum, the Clitheroe Castle Museum, which does have an admission charge.

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Coordinates: 53.86996° N 2.39385° W

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