Mourholme

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Mourholme, Maurholme,{{cite web|title=Maurholme Manor|url=http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/1709.html|website=Gatehouse: The comprehensive gazetteer and bibliography of the medieval castles, fortifications and palaces of England, Wales, the Islands.|access-date=28 September 2015}} Morhull{{cite journal|last1=Holmes|first1=Desmond|title=The Castles of the Barony of Kendal|journal=Mourholme Magazine of Local History|date=Autumn 1983|volume=2|issue=1|pages=10–12|url=http://www.mourholme.co.uk/users/UserFiles/File/1980-1985/MMofLH005.pdf|access-date=15 October 2015}} or Merhull was a manor and castle in north Lancashire, England, in the present parish of Warton, north of Carnforth.{{cite book|title=A History of the County of Lancaster:Vol 8|date=1914|publisher=Victoria County History|pages=161–165|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol8/pp161-165#h3-0002|access-date=28 September 2015|chapter=Townships: Warton with Lindeth}} The castle of "Merhull" was surrendered to King John in 1216 by Gilbert Fitz Reinfred. It is not known whether it was built of timber or of stone.{{cite journal|last1=Clare|first1=Tom|title=Notes and queries: Now we shall never know|journal=Mourholme Magazine of Local History|date=Winter 1983|volume=2|issue=2|pages=Unnumbered page facing p 9|url=http://www.mourholme.co.uk/users/UserFiles/File/1980-1985/MMofLH006.pdf|access-date=15 October 2015}}

The site of the castle was partially excavated in 1975, at which time it had already been damaged by gravel extraction, and the site has since been flooded forming Pine Lake, which lies east of the A6 road and west of the M6 motorway.{{PastScape|num=43067|desc=Alleged site of a motte and bailey castle, manor house and Maurholme Park.|accessdate=28 September 2015}}

The name is preserved in the title of the Mourholme Local History Society: The Society for the Old Parish of Warton, Lancashire, whose area of interest covers the modern parishes of Borwick, Carnforth, Priest Hutton, Silverdale, Warton, Yealand Conyers and Yealand Redmayne.{{cite web|title=Mourholme Local History Society|url=http://www.mourholme.co.uk/|publisher=MLHS|access-date=28 September 2015}} The Society publishes The Mourholme Magazine of Local History.{{cite web|title=Publications|url=http://www.mourholme.co.uk/?Publications|publisher=Mourholme Local History Society|access-date=16 October 2015}}