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'The Naked Carcase': The Long, Slow Death of Sheriff Hutton Castle 1590-1890 (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Shaun Timothy Richardson.

In 1534, the visiting John Leland saw at Sheriff Hutton castle, North Yorkshire, "no house in the North so like a princely lodgings".  Yet scarcely ninety years later, the surveyor John Norden viewed only a "naked carcase", and today, four shattered towers remain from the original structure.  Instead of considering the creation of an elite landscape and the heyday of a great late medieval residence, this paper will outline the transformation of one and the destruction of the other...