Hirst Castle (Ashington) - Source of Reference
The information on this website is based on a range of published and unpublished works. Below is a list of the source of information used in writing this record.
(1) Ordnance Survey Map OS 6 inch 1924
(2) Hadcock, R.N., 1939. Archaeologia Aeliana (4th Series) 16, 148-50.
(2a) Hodgson, J.C., 1832. History of Northumberland, part 2 vol 2, 192
(2b) Hodgson, J., 1916. Archaeologia Aeliana 3 series 13, 16
(3) Tomlinson, W.W., 1901. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle 9, 105-9.
(4) Ordnance Survey Map OS 6 inch 1898
(5) Field Investigators Comments F2 EG 29-MAR-1954
(6) Wilson, D.M. and Hurst, D.G., 1969. Medieval Archaeology 13, 273.
(7) Long, B., 1967. Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle upon Tyne), 122.
(8) This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 January 2021 licensed under the Open Government Licence [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/]
(8a) Dodds, J. F., 1999. Bastions and Belligerents: Medieval Strongholds in Northumberland, 223
(8b) Cathcart King, D. J., 1983. Castellarium anglicanum: an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II: Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands, 349