Qualla: Penrith Castle https://qualla.com/penrith-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/n/penrith-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Penrith Castle https://qualla.com/penrith-castle Penrith Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/penrith-castle/ Photo credit Clintheacock66 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0. Step off the train at Penrith and the first thing you see across the road is a ruin. Penrith Castle was the northern base of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the man who would briefly become Richard III, the king Shakespeare made famous and historians still argue about. He stayed here in the 1470s and early 1480s, using the castle to project royal authority against the Scots and against rival Lancastrian factions in the surrounding fells. Today its broken sandstone walls sit in a public park beside Penrith railway station, the platform announcements drifting over what was once a king's headquarters.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/n/penrith-castle-wp/gcwn-penrith-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Penrith Castle: Wars of the Roses Frontier https://qualla.com/penrith-castle/ Photo credit wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0. Penrith Castle was built piecemeal between 1399 and 1470 as a defence against Scottish raids. The exact builders are tangled in conflicting evidence. William Strickland, who became Bishop of Carlisle, was once credited with the original work, but a tenurial reconstruction suggest...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/n/penrith-castle-wp/gcwn-penrith-castle-wars-of-the-roses-frontier.mp3 0:06 2 full Penrith Castle: The Kingmaker and the King https://qualla.com/penrith-castle/ Photo credit VanuitVoorburg, CC BY-SA 3.0. Salisbury was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460. His son Richard, Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker, inherited the castle but died at the Battle of Barnet in 1471 without leaving a male heir. The castle reverted to the Crown. King Edward IV granted it later that same year to...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/n/penrith-castle-wp/gcwn-penrith-castle-the-kingmaker-and-the-king.mp3 0:06 3 full Penrith Castle: A Castle Sold and Sold Again https://qualla.com/penrith-castle/ Photo credit AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0. After the Tudors, Penrith Castle and the town remained Crown estate for two centuries. In 1696 William III gave it to his Dutch friend Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, along with most of the other Crown property in Cumberland. The Earls and Dukes of Portland sold it to...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/n/penrith-castle-wp/gcwn-penrith-castle-a-castle-sold-and-sold-again.mp3 0:06 4 full Penrith Castle: What Remains https://qualla.com/penrith-castle/ Photo credit William England, CC BY-SA 2.0. Penrith Castle today is maintained by English Heritage and listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England. The ruins, according to one nineteenth-century description, are remarkable more for their extent than their magnificence. Projecting corbels on the eastern front o...

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