Hornby Castle, North Yorkshire

Hornby Castle is a grade I listed fortified manor house on the edge of Wensleydale between Bedale and Leyburn, in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

[1] The present building is the south range of a larger complex, the rest of which has been demolished.

[4] During the English Civil War the Hornby was taken by Colonel Ralph Assheton, commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary forces in North Lancashire but an order to slight the castle was not carried out.

He assembled at Hornby rich early eighteenth-century furniture from several houses, illustrated in the books of Percy Macquoid.

On Amelia's death in 1784 the estate passed to her son George Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds (1775–1838).

Hornby Castle today
Hornby Castle before partial demolition
Portrait of the Duke of Leeds by Thomas Lawrence , 1796
Sandstone portal from Hornby Castle, Yorkshire. 6.86 x 2.29 m. The Burrell Collection