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Cockermouth Castle

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Cockermouth Castle
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Robert the Bruce and English soldiers threw stones through the walls, broke the roof and dumped rubbish into the hall, yet the castle still stands inside a living town. It is not a ruined postcard or a museum diorama; it is a house-shaped wound that the town has learned to walk around.
Cockermouth Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of Cumberland. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Cockermouth Castle was built by the de Cockermouth family in the 12th century and later held by the Dacre family in the 14th century. It is important as a strategic medieval stronghold in the border region between England and Scotland.

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Photo: Gordon Brown · CC BY-SA 2.0