Pendragon Castle

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Where is it exactly?? Nr Kirkby Stephen, just off the M6 past Killington Lake Services

I visited on 10th May 2009…

After 6 miles inland we turned down a tiny country road and consulted some locals…”Where’s Pendragon Castle..?” the conversation reminded me of the scene in American Werewolf in London…stay on the road, turn left at the Fat Lamb, over the Cattlegrid and turn right up the road into the hills, don’t leave the road and go over the dales and down into the Valley – you can’t miss it!!!!!!!!!!! That was a journey I tell ya! But hey — we found it! and here it is

Pendragon Castle

A little history!!

This is, according to legend, the site where Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur, died.

The story goes that Uther, also a King, had his capital at Carlisle, and his Round Table at Eamont Bridge, just to the south of Penrith.

The castle ruins are in a dramatic spot in the Mallerstang Valley, the fledgling River Eden flows close by the castle, and above is the forbidding Wild Boar Fell.

It is thought that Hugh de Morville built the castle that the present remains are based on around 1173, possibly fortified at a later date. The castle was then given to Robert de Vipont along with the castles at Appleby and Brough in 1203, later passed to Robert de Leyburne, and later still to Robert de Clifford.