Picturing Pontefract Castle


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Item number: P.226

Siege map of the castle during the Civil War. This version of the map was drawn by George Fox in the 1820s. He names the towers going clockwise; Round Tower [Keep], Red Tower, Treasures Tower, Swillington Tower, Kings, Queens and Constable's. These are different from names and positions to the accepted ones today. The terrace is identified as a bowling green