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Name: | Dunstanburgh Castle |
Hill number: | 19514 |
Height: | 36.2m / 119ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2317 Ros Castle [Ros Hill] |
RHB Section: | 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne |
County/UA: | Northumberland |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (North) |
Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
Grid ref: | NU 25614 21928 |
Summit feature: | no feature: grass inside castle wall |
Drop: | 30.1m |
Col: | 6.1m NU251222 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 75 (1:25k) 332 |
Comments: | Col at NU 2552 2205 on hill-hill traverse is of equal height |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 64 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From good parking to the north. | Alan Caine | 09/08/2023 |
Free parking at Dunstan Steads to WNW. Walked along coast path to castle: closed when I arrived early evening, but the gate is easy to hop over. Enjoyed a peaceful wander around the grounds. | PGCE | 01/05/2023 |
W/I. | Sedge | 29/01/2023 |
path from dunstan steads. | robertphillips | 22/01/2023 |
Second visit here.. after about 30 yrs. More to see inside the castle than appearances from below suggest. Also climbed one of the small pinnacles in front of tower close to HP. | Nick Canute | 29/09/2022 |
From the quarry carpark at Craster. Easy access over a gate if it's closed. | JohnR | 22/04/2022 |
From quarry car park in Craster | Andrew Simmons | 30/12/2021 |
Walked from Dunstan Steads with the bairns | Gary Heath | 26/06/2021 |
With Sonja from quarry carpark in Craster. Walked to the castle, spent 40 mins there. A lot of people about and carpark nearly full. Sunny breezy day. | Skip | 17/06/2021 |
Along my favourite beach alongside my favourite golf course to my favourite castle. What could be better?With Bridget and Oscar. | catman | 08/06/2021 |
With Jo, coastal path from Craster. Well worth a visit. Weather; dull, mild, good visibility. | amblerbob | 26/04/2021 |
Northumberland recompleted (5) | Dave Geere | 31/12/2019 |
Pleasant amble from Craster on a glorious Christmas Day morning, but the castle was closed (£6.30 or £5.70 concession). No problem, followed path round W side then steeply up to Lilburn tower, surmounted fence at some easy wooden rails. | Aye Jimmy | 25/12/2019 |
Atmospheric on a moonless night. Grassy HP just S of tower. Northumberland recompleted en route north | RHW | 24/12/2019 |
From Craster. | jimbloomer | 18/12/2019 |
After Bamburgh Castle, Lesley and I drove to Dunstan steads and parked up, taking path next to golf course and upto the entrance via upper footpath. After a hot drink we climbed the tower then explored the rest. I veered off for the high point, some embedded rocks not far from the Lilburn tower. Great views and wild feel with the waves crashing onto the basalt below. On the return journey we dropped down to Embleton Bay before returning easily to the car. | Dazingdale | 03/10/2019 |
on visit to castle | holtsd | 14/09/2019 |
Walked from Craster | Andrew Pearson | 01/04/2019 |
Visited and summited many times. My mother and father lived in Craster in 1959 before I was born in Rothbury in 1960. So may even have bagged it in the womb. Bagged today while walking day 2 of the St Oswald’s Way from Bamburgh to Craster. | Dugswell2 | 02/07/2018 |
From Craster a walk along the coast with A& C. 
Also went up this much earlier when a child, but no date known. | PeterD | 22/08/2014 |
walk up from Craster | cjo | 28/04/2012 |
A great afternoon exploring the site. | Moorponder | 26/10/2009 |
Camped in the dunes to the north with K the night before and woke up to views of the castle surrounded by mist. Walked up to and around the castle in the morning. Wonderful place. | Herbert Anchovy | 24/10/2004 |
Date long forgotten but remember it well 
 Walked up from the south whilst camping at Beadnell. Will have to return for a photograph now though. | moorsman | 09/09/1999 |
With Viv on short break | JohnIvor | 23/03/1996 |
Actual date not known. Several more visits in intervening years | Colin Crawford | 01/02/1990 |
Date approx. Many visits over the years here, fine location. Don’t miss the crab sandwiches at Craster’s Jolly Fisherman pub | nordicstar | 01/07/1987 |
Info only. A paranoid island of colossal ambition , built in 1250 in a hurry by a bad man (Thomas Earl of Lancaster -nephew of Edwards I)in era when life was nasty, brutish and short. (Patrick Barkham in Coastlines). Accounts declare Thomas as a grasping landlord above the law who cloaked himself in Arthurian legend using the pseudonym King Arthur. He built this castle 5 stories high because all those built at the time by Edward 1 were only 3. Coal from Newcastle fired 3 limekilns, wood from Scandinavia for doors and windows and local sandstone. Its gatehouse faces the sea - where most visitors arrived from. The moat to the west supplied fish and wildfowl and also probably accounts for this just tump status. | Chris Pearson | blank |
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Llondon | 05/02/2023 | |
stevent0809 | 20/09/2022 | |
wcroasdell | 31/08/2022 | |
mae | 15/08/2022 | |
Trantham Clan | 01/08/2022 | |
Christo1979 | 16/01/2022 | |
Jim B | 04/12/2021 | |
softsquare | 19/10/2021 | |
AdyGray | 27/06/2021 | |
George Gradwell | 26/05/2021 | |
patrick | 06/04/2021 | |
mcbiydw2 | 26/10/2020 | |
Preston | 11/08/2020 | |
ooo | 16/07/2020 | |
dexly | 20/05/2020 | |
northernphilby | 21/04/2020 | |
hemerson09 | 26/01/2020 | |
flakeyw | 21/07/2019 | |
poppiesrara | 14/10/2018 | |
daviemore | 12/06/2018 | |
Christo1979 | 27/12/2017 |