Catherine Hansbie’s will is one of several wills of Tickhill people available in the Documents Online section of the National Archives website.

Tickhill Castle grounds have been the venue for many public events from fund raising fetes to pageants, although not, of course, in recent years. One of the most ambitious activities was a re-enactment of ‘The storming of Tickhill Castle’!

One of the functions served by Tickhill Castle apart from its military and administrative uses was to provide a secure place to detain law-breakers and others. In 1166 when there were very few purpose-built gaols, the Assize of Clarendon decreed that gaols should be made in 'a borough or some castle' at the King's expense, where there were no other gaols, enabling sheriffs to hold securely those who had been arrested.

When a team of archaeologists surveyed Tickhill Castle in 1984-5, the interim report produced by Charles Hippisley-Cox included a brief note on 'Some plants of historical interest' by team member Elizabeth Fowler. She recorded that a number of plants growing in the castle grounds had been grown in the medieval period for their herbal qualities.

Agitator, Soldier, Pamphleteer, Leveller, Quaker, who negotiated the surrender of Tickhill Castle, July 1644.

Compared to the somewhat disreputable, although loyal, Sir William de Anne, Constable of Tickhill Castle 1312-1327, and the financially unreliable Sir William Fraunk, Constable from 1336-46, Sir Walter Urswick was a person of greater probity who occupied the office of Constable of Ticklhill Castle.

In late summer 1374 John of Gaunt, King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Lancaster, the largest landowner and the richest man in England, visited his recently acquired honour of Tickhill and stayed briefly in its castle before moving to the manor house at Gringley, with disastrous consequences for some of his poorest tenants. If it was not exactly 'trouble at t' mill', it was certainly trouble concerning it.

A winter view not normally seen by the general public, but taken by George Read in 1987 before the Duchy of Lancaster selected an occupant for Castle House. The weather in January 1987 was particularly cold with snow falling from 11 January.

Following the Conquest of 1066, land was given to Norman barons by William l as a reward for their support. By the end of the 11th century a motte and bailey castle had been built on Tica’s Hill. The location of this castle was to give its name to a new settlement – Tickhill.

An auctioneer's description of Tickhill Castle for "a very reasonable rent" - taken from the British Newspaper Archives

Ponies Grazing in Castle Grounds and Tea for Three - Memories of Brenda Lightburn, daughter of Harvey Thorp.

Over a number of years, Ruth and Derek Taylor unearthed pottery fragments which were found in various places in the garden of their home in Castle Close.

St Mary's School performed their school concert "The Romans" in the Castle grounds in 1995