Described in "None Had Lances" - as deep in "the heart of the Yorkshire Countryside" - "a modern dwelling, set among pine trees, on the southern edge of the North Yorkshire moors and, on first impressions, miles from anywhere. It was near the village of Cropton and seven miles north of Pickering. Here for the first time the Regiment was united, all on one site." A place to post some links re. "Keldy Castle" etc. i.e. Keldy Castle was an Army Camp in World War Two and some of it still exists Keldy Army Camp The site of Keldy Castle in North Yorkshire was requisitioned from the Reckitt family during World War Two by the Army. The main house, while having bits crenellated, was really just a stately home. According to internet sources and a reader who contacted us, such was the damage to the house during its army use, it was demolished after the war. According to a Forestry Commission pamphlet from 1996, 800 troops were stationed on the site. It was bought by the Forestry Commission in 1947 and the castle was demolished in 1956 having fallen into disrepair." And...The Yorkshire Bint Family History site With: "This is Keldy Castle where the employer of James (Arthur) Bint sometimes stayed. Arthur was working as a gamekeeper on the North Yorkshire moors in 1911. Only 14 miles from his parents' home at Hutton, Keldy is just 35 miles from York and today on the very edge of the North York Moors National Park. In 1890 Keldy Castle, at Cropton near Pickering, was in an area described as a shooting box belonging to the Liddells a Newcastle coal mine owning family. *A shooting box is a term used for a small country property in the UK popular with the upper classes and being used for organised hunting parties.By 1903 its owner was Hull's famous son, Sir James Reckitt of Reckitt and Colman. The 1911 census shows the castle only occupied by servants. They were the farm bailiff, Ernest Hill and his family, which included Ernest's mother-in-law Sarah Ward listed as housekeeper. Arthur Bint shared one of the servants' quarters with the housekeeper's son, farm waggoner 21 year old Edmund Ward.During the Second World War the castle became an army training camp. The site was then bought by the Forestry Commission in 1948 and they demolished many of the buildings. There is little left of the original castle save for a wall, the servants quarters and stables. It appears that Arthur Bint worked here as a gamekeeper before joining up as a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery during the First World War. And: Keldy Castle | England's Lost Country Houses
