Pickering Castle 😍 | Loch Lomond Travel

Pickering Castle on a cloudy winter day suits it - grey sky, cold stone, and that proper old-earthwork shape still doing its job above the town. From the air you can read the whole design: an early Norman motte-and-bailey layout, later strengthened with stone walls and towers as the centuries rolled on. It’s one of those places where the outline tells you as much as the ruins do. Short fly round, keeping it steady and letting the shape, the ditches, and the height over Pickering do the talking.

Pickering Castle is situated in the heart of the North York Moors and dates to the Norman invasion of England. Likely build during the ‘Harrying of the North’ the original wooden structure was rebuilt in stone from around 1180. Much of what we see today dates to the 13th century however, with the castle having served as a Royal hunting lodge, holiday home and stud farm by some of England’s most notorious Kings. Pickering is a beautiful market town to visit and if you are in the area I would defi

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