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- With the demise of Henry I in 1135 the civil war between the supporters of rival claimants Stephen and Matilda gave the Scots the opportunity to regain the town, which they duly did. It changed hands once more in 1157 when Henry II exercised his authority over all Cumbria, granting Carlisle its first charter the following year.
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In 1157, Carlisle became the seat of the new county of Carliol (a name that was originally an abbreviation of Latin Carlioliensis, meaning "[Bishop] of Carlisle"); in 1177 the county was renamed Cumberland.
- Roman Carlisle
- Carlisle from The 5th Century to The 11th Century
- Carlisle in The Middle Ages
- Carlisle in The 16th Century and The 17th Century
- Carlisle in The 18th Century
- Carlisle in The 19th Century
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Carlisle began as a Roman town called Luguvalium. The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and about 78 AD the governor, Agricola, built a wooden fort on the site of Carlisle. Soon a civilian settlement grew up nearby. The soldiers in the fort provided a market for the townspeople’s goods. Roman Carlisle was called Luguvalium. In Roman Carlisle, there w...
Carlisle may not have been abandoned completely. There may have been some farmers living inside the walls and farming the land outside. However, it seems certain that Carlisle ceased to be a town, and all its Roman buildings fell into ruins. The Celts gave Carlisle its name. They called it Caer Luel, the fortified place belonging to Luel. St Cuthbe...
In the Middle Ages Carlisle was a small town with a population of perhaps 1,500-2,000. It would seem tiny to us but by the standards of the time, Carlisle was a fair-sized market town. However, Cumbria was a poor area of England with little trade and commerce in the region. However, Carlisle was strategically important because of its position near ...
In 1541 Henry VIII closed the priory and the 2 friaries. He also rebuilt and strengthened the castle. Henry replaced the southern gate of Carlisle with a citadel with 2 towers. Like all Tudor towns, Carlisle suffered outbreaks of plague which decimated the population each time. There was a severe outbreak of plague in Carlisle in 1597. Even so, the...
In the mid-18th century, Carlisle was no more than a medium-sized market town with a population of about 4,000. However, the situation began to change in the late 18th century. Trade had always been limited in Carlisle because it was in a poor area of England. In 1745 the Jacobites under their leader Bonnie Prince Charlie marched south and after a ...
In 1801 the population of Carlisle was 9,555. By the standards of the time, it was quite a large town. Carlisle grew rapidly and by 1851 it had a population of over 25,000. Scottish and Irish immigrants swelled the population. The textile industry boomed in Carlisle in the early 19th century although many of the weavers lived in poverty. However, i...
By 1901 the population of Carlisle was over 45,000. In 1900 electric trams began to run in the streets of Carlisle. They were replaced by buses in 1931. Carlisle gained its first cinema in 1906. In 1912 the boundaries of Carlisle were extended to include Stanwix and Botcherby. In the 1920s and 1930s, Raffles Estate was built. In the early 20th cent...
On 8 January 2005 Carlisle suffered from severe floods. Much of the city center was submerged and 110,000 people had their power cut. Worse, 3 people died and millions of pounds worth of damage was done. Yet Carlisle recovered. Today Carlisle is a flourishing town. In 2023 the population of Carlisle was 108,000.
Dec 8, 2021 · Carlisle became the county town for the old county of Cumberland. This historic town was eventually reclassified during local government reorganisation in 1970, when under Whitehall diktat the ancient counties were merged into what is now Cumbria.
Carlisle’s role as a fortress town dates from the reign of Henry I (1100–35). Its position commanding the narrow lowland entry into England from the northwest gave it strategic importance. Augustinian canons built a church behind the castle, and their prior was created the first bishop in 1133.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Two centuries of stability ended when the Vikings sacked the town and slaughtered its inhabitants in 876, driving the monks away, ushering in a period when the town was all but abandoned. In 945 the Norsemen were driven out by the Saxons, but Carlisle became a part of the nascent Scottish kingdom.
Carlisle was the historic county town and administrative centre for Cumberland and subsequently became the administrative centre for the county of Cumbria that was created in 1974 from an amalgamation of Cumberland, Westmorland and the Furness area of Lancashire.
Carlisle first began to be of some importance as a manufacturing town about the year 1745 , when a large woollen manufactory was set up by some Hamburgh merchants, but after a few years it was discontinued. About 1750 a manufactory of coarse linen, and a new woollen manufactory, were set up.
