Brougham Castle

Brougham Castle, Penrith in the Eden Valley, Cumbria.
The 13th century castle was built on the site of an old Roman fort. The great keep built by Robert de Vieuxpont in the early 13th century largely survives. Originally this would have been surrounded by a wooden pallisaide, but when the castle passed to Robert Clifford in the 14th century, he did much refortification to protect it from the Scots. Clifford added a double gatehouse, replaced the wooden pallisaide with a stone curtain wall and built the residential Tower of League. In July 1300, Edward 1 stayed at the castle. Clifford was killed in 1314 at the Battle of Bannockburn and the castle then fell into disrepair until Lady Anne Clifford inherited it in 1643. She restored it as her country mansion and died there in 1676 aged 86.