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| rdfs:comment | - Bywell Castle is situated in the village of Bywell overlooking the River Tyne, four miles east of Corbridge, Northumberland, England (). It is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument It was built in 1430 by the Neville family (see Earl of Westmorland) but was never completed. The impressive three storey gatehouse remains. together with part of a curtain wall into which has been incorporated a much later house (Grade II listed). The Castle is privately owned and not normally open to visitors.
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| abstract | - Bywell Castle is situated in the village of Bywell overlooking the River Tyne, four miles east of Corbridge, Northumberland, England (). It is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument It was built in 1430 by the Neville family (see Earl of Westmorland) but was never completed. The impressive three storey gatehouse remains. together with part of a curtain wall into which has been incorporated a much later house (Grade II listed). The Castle is privately owned and not normally open to visitors. Bywell Castle gave its name to a collier which ploughed into the SS Princess Alice on the River Thames in September 1878, sinking her within minutes. Nearly 700 lives were lost in that disaster.
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