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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
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 64 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
From good parking to the north.Alan Caine09/08/2023
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.PGCE01/05/2023
W/I.Sedge29/01/2023
path from dunstan steads.robertphillips22/01/2023
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 Canute29/09/2022
From the quarry carpark at Craster. Easy access over a gate if it's closed.JohnR22/04/2022
From quarry car park in CrasterAndrew Simmons30/12/2021
Walked from Dunstan Steads with the bairnsGary Heath26/06/2021
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.Skip17/06/2021
Along my favourite beach alongside my favourite golf course to my favourite castle. What could be better?With Bridget and Oscar.catman08/06/2021
With Jo, coastal path from Craster. Well worth a visit. Weather; dull, mild, good visibility.amblerbob26/04/2021
Northumberland recompleted (5)Dave Geere31/12/2019
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 Jimmy25/12/2019
Atmospheric on a moonless night. Grassy HP just S of tower. Northumberland recompleted en route northRHW24/12/2019
From Craster.jimbloomer18/12/2019
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.Dazingdale03/10/2019
on visit to castleholtsd14/09/2019
Walked from CrasterAndrew Pearson01/04/2019
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.Dugswell202/07/2018
From Craster a walk along the coast with A& C. Also went up this much earlier when a child, but no date known.PeterD22/08/2014
walk up from Crastercjo28/04/2012
A great afternoon exploring the site.Moorponder26/10/2009
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 Anchovy24/10/2004
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.moorsman09/09/1999
With Viv on short breakJohnIvor23/03/1996
Actual date not known. Several more visits in intervening yearsColin Crawford01/02/1990
Date approx. Many visits over the years here, fine location. Don’t miss the crab sandwiches at Craster’s Jolly Fisherman pubnordicstar01/07/1987
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 Pearsonblank
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