10 Castles In England Where Families Still Live Inside - Built Before 1500

These castles were already ancient when Henry VIII was a teenager - and the families who live in them have no plans to leave. 🏰 In this video, we explore 10 Northumberland castles built before 1500 where families still sleep in the same stone bedrooms, eat in the same great halls, and heat the same fireplaces their ancestors did during the Wars of the Roses. 🏰 Castles continuously occupied for 500, 600, even 800+ years ⚔️ Border fortresses built to repel Scottish raids - still standing, still lived in 👑 Families who held their walls through Plantagenets, Tudors, Stuarts, and two World Wars 🧱 The staggering cost of maintaining medieval stone in 2026 - heating bills alone could bankrupt you 🌿 Why Northumberland has more inhabited castles per mile than almost anywhere in Britain Northumberland's border country bred a different kind of castle: not decorative palaces but working war machines, built thick and built to last. The families inside them matched. Five centuries of holding the line, and the descendants are still cooking dinner in the kitchen their fifteen-generation ancestors defended with crossbows. 👍 LIKE this video if castles still lived in hits different than castles behind a rope! 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for hidden English history, forgotten places, and the UK the guidebooks skip! 💬 COMMENT: Which Northumberland castle would you visit - or live in? And Northumbrians, which castle did we miss? #Northumberland #Castles #medievalengland