Grisly Grange witnessed a siege in 982 and celebrated in the Crabtree-Gore Coat of Arms (The Pedant and the Shuffly, 21). According to lore, Crankforth defended the castle with a mere twelve men and a cellar of crab-apple preserves. The preserves were heated and catapulted upon the besiegers, all of whom were eventually devoured by a giant toad.
Monastic granges were outlying landholdings held by monasteries, which could be adjacent to the monastery or at some distant dependant on land ownership. The word grange came from the French graunge from Latin granica meaning a granary. Most of these buildings were stripped of their religious connotations following King Henry VIII’s dissolution of monasteries [1].
How gruesome (i.e., grisly) Crankforth’s grange was is unknown.
Another fictional grange appears in the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange".
References
- [1] Wikipedia: Monastic grange
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