Barrowton

Barrowton is a city of wooden houses and wide, straight streets, laid out beneath Barrow Hall, the castle that crowns the town and seat of House Dustin.

Less than a thousand paces away stands Goldgrass, the settlement of its vassals, House Stout, and on the grassy slopes nearby the Great Barrow can be seen.

King Aegon I Targaryen passed through Barrowton on two occasions, during the long royal progresses to which he devoted half of every year.

In 58 AC, King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Queen Alysanne made Barrowton the last stop of their royal progress through the North. There, Lord Dustin showed them the barrow of the First King and held a tournament in their honor, modest next to what was usual in the south.

Queen Alysanne used the visit to hold one of her women's courts in the town.

At the start of the Dance of the Dragons, shortly after Prince Jacaerys Velaryon's journey through the North, Barrowton was one of the places where men began mustering to join the Blacks. Lord Roderick Dustin led the Winter Wolves on their march to the Riverlands.

Later, after Rhaenyra Targaryen's execution at her brother King Aegon II's order, word reached King's Landing that warriors were gathering in Winterfell, Barrowton and White Harbor. Soon after, Lord Cregan Stark marched south at the head of an army.

In 134 AC, during a particularly harsh winter, winter fever reached Barrowton, the first time it struck an inland city. Lord Dustin was forced to shut the town's gates against the hundreds of starving smallfolk crowding beneath its walls.

According to semi-canonical sources, some distant kin of House Stark still live in Barrowton.

Maester Aemon sent a raven to Barrowton asking for help to defend Castle Black from a wildling attack.

After taking Moat Cailin, Lord Roose Bolton summoned the lords of the North to Barrowton to swear their allegiance to King Tommen Baratheon.

The town received the forces of House Bolton, Frey, Ryswell, Tallhart, Flint, Umber, Locke, Slate, Cerwyn, Stout and Hornwood, together with those of the Dustins themselves.