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History of Carlisle Castle. For 500 years, until the English and Scottish crowns were united in 1603, Carlisle Castle was the principal fortress of England’s north-western border with Scotland.
- Mary Queen of Scots
Born in 1542, Mary became Queen of Scotland when she was...
- Andrew Harclay
Carlisle Castle featured prominently in the triumphs and...
- Significance
For over 500 years from 1092, Carlisle was the main point of...
- Mary Queen of Scots
At the east end of the cathedral are monuments in memory of Sir George Fleming, Bart. Bishop of Carlisle, who died in 1747, aged 81; his son William Fleming, LL.D. archdeacon of the diocese (1742); Mildred his daughter, wife of Edward Stanley, Esq. of Ponsonby, (1789); Gustavus Thompson, Esq. of Arcleby Hall, 1756; John Thomlinson, Esq. 1765 ...
- Carlisle Castle
- The Jacobite Rebellion
- Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
- Carlisle Cathedral
- Bitts Park
- Courthouse
- Watchtree Nature Reserve
- A Heritage City
Carlisle Castle was the most frequently and ferociously attacked fortress in all the history of English vs Scottish conflict. It changed hands many times and was constantly under siege. It’s remarkable then, that so much of it still survives today. Inside the castle walls is the original castle keep dating to 1120. More recent buildings on the site...
A series of spiral staircases lead to the third floor of the keep, where you get good views across the city. An exhibition about the Jacobite rebellion fills the upper rooms. On 21 September 1745, a Jacobite army of poorly-trained Highland clansmen charged the battlefield at Prestonpans near Edinburgh, against King George II’s army, to fight for Bo...
The first thing we learned when we visited Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, was that we should have allowed more time! There’s lots to see, read, and explore. The exhibitions take you through different periods in history, with prehistoric rock art, stone circles, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Roman Invasion, the Dark Ages, the Norman Invasi...
Carlisle Cathedral was open for an hour after the closure of the museum, so we went to check it out and arrived just as Evensong was about to begin - it’s a half-hour service with a choir taking the lead, so we joined in and immersed ourselves in the whole experience. As we sat on modern chairs, we gazed up at the ceiling, depicting golden stars pa...
Bitts Park in Carlisle dates to 1894 when it was designed to help the people of Carlisle live fit and active lifestyles. Today the park is maintained for much the same purpose, with tennis courts, climbing equipment, and a skating rink, next to floral gardens and parkland. There is a kiddies’ playground and at least four xylophone sculptures that v...
If you walk through the town, you can see the old courthouse and gaol wall. They used to hang people from the gallows here - originally stringing them up just outside the gaol walls, but apparently the locals enjoyed it too much. The authorities eventually decided that public hangings were too gruesome and tasteless - and that people were getting t...
Finally, we headed out of the city to see Watchtree Nature Reserve, which opened in 2002, following the devastating loss of livestock to foot and mouth disease; it devastated the farming industry in the UK at the time. The whole area, once an airfield, became a mass burial ground, and locals wanted to turn something so horrible, into something good...
Carlisle has a huge amount to offer visitors, with glorious historic buildings and plenty of heritage attractions. A short drive from the city is Hadrian’s Wall, a long Roman wall, built just under 2000 years ago, by the Roman Army who occupied England. The wall is 73 miles long and stretches the full length of northern Britain from sea to sea. Tod...
The 1880s and 1890s. By the 1880s, the trade in books about history or historical places was well established. Photography was now almost 60 years old, but illustrations still dominated handbooks about places around Britain, even as filmmakers began to record Victorian streets and communities.
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The modern history of Carlisle begins in 1092 when Dolfin was driven out by William II of England, (called Rufus because of his red hair). Rufus was the second son of William the Conqueror, and because his conquest of Cumberland occurred after the compilation of the Domesday Book of 1086.
Mar 14, 2021 · In 876 the Vikings captured Carlisle and sacked it. The monks moved away but some people probably continued to live within the walls of the old Roman town. The Vikings held Carlisle until the 10th century when the Saxons captured it. Carlisle was rebuilt and revived by King William Rufus in 1092.
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Dec 13, 2013 · George Falder, 48, died in September 2012 at the Pirelli site in Carlisle. He was found in a machine where temperatures could reach 145C (293F).
