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Map & local info. Cawood Castle has views across the Vale of York from the roof terrace and overlooks the centre of the small, historic town of Cawood, a former market town with a bridge over the River Ouse. The wonderful city of York is about half an hour from Cawood by car.
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- Cawood, near Selby, North Yorkshire
Cawood Castle was a medieval palace and later a castle belonging to the Archbishops of York. Learn about its history, architecture and drawings from the 12th to the 18th century.
Cawood Castle. The houses and shops are located around the remains of Cawood Castle which lies at its centre. This was the residence of the Archbishops of York who were forced to leave at the English Reformation. It is possible to stay in the Castle Gatehouse, which is a Landmark Trust property.
The castle was the main residence of Thomas Savage while he was Archbishop of York, and he died at Cawood Castle in September 1507. [1] Cardinal Wolsey came to Cawood as Archbishop of York in 1530 and made himself popular with the villagers by putting right years of neglect.
Cawood Castle was by now more palace than castle. Kempe’s successor, Archbishop George Neville celebrated his installation in grand style. John Leland described in every sumptuous detail the feast he threw. Provisions included 400 swans, 104 oxen, 2000 pigs and 4000 venison pasties! It was one of the most famous of all medieval feasts.
Wolsey passed under the stone gatehouse at Cawood at the end of September 1529, travelling by mule and accompanied by a great entourage. He began an extensive programme of repairs and improvements to the castle, which saw 300 ‘artificers and labourers’ at work. In November 1530, Wolsey was dining in his first-floor chamber at Cawood when ...
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Cawood Castle is a castle or fortified manor house in Cawood, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.The surviving fifteenth-century structures formed part of a fortified mediæval palace belonging to the Archbishops of York, which was dismantled in the aftermath of the Civil War.
