Many things in a Song of Ice and Fire were based on historical places and events. The Wall is based off of the Great Wall of China/Hadrian’s Wall, Valyrian Steel is based off of Damascus Steel. When reading about Craster's Keep, I wondered if that had historical inspirations as well.
There is a real Craster’'s Tower in the village of Craster which is, (yep) not too far north of Hadrian’s wall in Northumberland. It has long since been expanded into a huge mansion and in fact the site has been owned by the Craster family for centuries. (Though at one point it had different owners, the Crasters apparently own it now, though it has been converted into a number of residential apartments.)
The Crasters are an ancient family that literally pre-date the Romans in Britain. Their name comes from Crawceastr, which meant “Crow’s earthwork.’'
I am afraid that rumors of midden heaps, the rampant sacrifice of newborn babies to snow-demons or enthusiastic attitudes towards father-daughter incest in the Craster family cannot be substantiated.
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