The Honour of Clitheroe is an ancient grouping of manors and royal forests centred on Clitheroe Castle in Lancashire, England; an honour traditionally being the grant of a large landholding complex, not all of whose parts are contiguous. In the case of Clitheroe, this complex was loosely clustered around the ancient wapentake of Blackburnshire.
Clitheroe Castle, the caput of the Honour of Clitheroe
Clitheroe Castle is a ruined early medieval castle in Clitheroe in Lancashire, England. It was the caput of the Honour of Clitheroe, a vast estate stretching along the western side of the Pennines.
The keep at Clitheroe Castle, August 2007
The Duke of Albemarle was given the castle by Charles II in 1660.
The keep and part of the surviving curtain wall
The stables and courthouse, later additions viewed from the wall