I’ve done some research and found that Wressil has had various spellings over the years and is now known as Wressle it’s about half way between Leeds and Kingston upon Hull.
http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/English%20sites/1079.html
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=53.7754&lon=-0.929&scale=200000&icon=x
So it’s a bit too far south for our purposes in this case but intersting none the less.

Temple Newsham is also near Leeds and was the birthplace of Darnley.
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/templenewsam/
Sounds like an interesting place to visit – Capability Brown gardens for instance.
Take the postcode from that site and put it into MultiMap and you’ll see the location in detail.

I found a site that purports to list some possesions of the Lennoxes in England in the 1540s:

\”The English government rewarded Lennoxs fidelity by grants of land; some of the property of the disgraced Percys was awarded to him, and he was made keeper of Wressil Castle. He also received a grant of the Percy mansion at Hackney, and this house Lady Margaret retained until her death. At the period at which we now write, however, Margaret resided almost entirely at Temple Newsham, devoting herself to the education of her son Darnley.\” link

Cross checking does say that Castle Wressil was in the possession of the Percys from the 1400s to the 1700s with some periods of alienation when they stood in opposition to the Crown. I haven\’t quite managed to verify when the (no doubt short) period of the Lennox\’s occupation would have been.

My knowledge of the required geography is abysmal but would Wressil, or indeed Temple Newsham, fit the bill for Lymond\’s prison at the end of CM?

FRED