[4] In 1326 King Edward II annexed the western part of Lucy's estate, which included Staward Pele.

Thomas II de Featherstonehaugh built a full scale castle on the site of the original pele.

[5] The site was purchased in 1273 by Philippa of Hainault from John Darci le Cocin and Nicholas de Swinburne and then it was passed to Edmund, Duke of York.

[6] Nearby "Staward Manor House" in the parish of Haydon, Northumberland, contains initials on a lintel of George Bacon and his wife Cecilia Robson dated 1668,[7] founders of the Bacon family "of Stewart Pile"[8] (i.e. Staward Peel), Styford and Newton Cap in Durham.

It was demolished before 1856 and only masonry ruins of three of the outer walls from the gatehouse, and remains of the ditch and earthworks also exist today.