Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rose Castle

Rose Castle.-- seat of the Bishop of Carlisle, on river Caldew, Cumberland, 7 miles SW. of Carlisle; succeeded an ancient castle where Edward I. halted in 1300, and which was dismantled during the Civil War.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC
Place: Rose Castle

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