Had a flying visit to Spofforth Castle to day to scout for a possible picture. Actually it is not a castle at all, and never was, being originally a Saxon manor house which was given to William de Percy in 1097. It is reputedly where the Northern Barons drew up the Magna Carta in 1215. It became fortified in 1308, but it seems a strange place to have this type of building as it is built into the side of the rocky outcrop rather than on top of it, and would be difficult to defend, something which...