Warkworth Castle

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Warkworth Castle is a ruined medieval building in the town of the same name in the English county of Northumberland. The town and castle occupy a loop of the River Coquet, less than a mile from England's north-east coast. When the castle was founded is uncertain, but traditionally it has been ascribed to Prince Henry of Scotland in the mid 12th century, although it may have been built by King Henry II of England when he took control of England's northern counties. Warkworth Castle was first documented in a charter of 1157-1164 when Henry II granted it to Roger fitz Richard. The timber castle was considered feeble so when the Scots invaded in 1173 it was undefended.