Castles and forts in Cumberland

The Discover Alone map has 50 castles and forts in Cumberland, England. Below are the 49 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.

• Ravenglass Roman fort bath-house, also known as Walls CastleScheduled monumentWalls Castle in Cumberland is a scheduled monument, though the name Walls Castle still belongs to the Roman bath-house…
• Maiden Castle round cairn, BurnmoorScheduled monumentMaiden Castle round cairn, Burnmoor is a Bronze Age stone circle where people buried their dead before written history…
• Maiden Castle CairnArchaeological placeMaiden Castle Cairn marks a buried chamber or monument on the Cumberland map, waiting for dirt to be removed and shape…
• Egremont CastleScheduled monumentEgremont Castle rose on a mound above the River Ehen after William II conquered Cumberland in 1092, but William Meschin…
• Cockermouth CastleCastleRobert the Bruce and English soldiers threw stones through the walls, broke the roof and dumped rubbish into the hall…
• Carlisle Castle; medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of an earlier Roman fort known as LuguvaliumScheduled monumentCarlisle Castle stands as a medieval tower keep castle, two lengths of city wall, a 16th century battery, and part of…
• Carlisle CastleCastleCarlisle Castle is the oldest continuously occupied castle in England, standing since William II built it in 1092. It…
• Birdoswald Roman FortFortBirdoswald Roman Fort stands in Cumberland as one of the better-preserved forts on Hadrian's Wall, its stone…
• Bewcastle Roman fort, high cross shaft in St Cuthbert's churchyard, and Bew Castle medieval shell keep castleScheduled monumentBewcastle stacks three eras of defence on one ridge in Cumberland: a second-century Roman fort, a seventh or…
• Bewcastle Roman FortArchaeological placeBewcastle Roman Fort stands in Cumberland, England, a ghost of stone and purpose on the northern edge of empire.…
• Area of Roman and medieval towns, bounded by Annetwell Street, Abbey Street, Castle Street and Paternoster RowScheduled monumentCarlisle's oldest streets still mark the Roman and medieval towns beneath modern Cumberland. The boundary names…
• Triermain CastleCastlePerhaps the castle is thin because it is already a scaffold for a chamber, not a chamber itself. That may be the edge…
• Workington Hall tower house and later medieval fortified houseScheduled monumentMud and memory still cling to the tower, where steel and stone resisted the dark. It stands in Cumberland as a…
• Wolsty CastleArchaeological placeWolsty Castle rose in the fourteenth century to guard the exposed coast and protect Holme Abbey, though it vanished by…
• Westnewton CastleScheduled monumentWestnewton Castle stands in Cumberland as a scheduled monument, marked only by a point on the official list rather than…
• The Roman fort and associated civil settlement and a medieval tower house at Bowness on Solway at the west end of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 80Scheduled monumentBowness on Solway marks wall mile 80, the western edge of Hadrian's Wall, where a Roman fort, civil settlement and…
• The Mote Castle mound, medieval motte castle and site of late medieval beaconScheduled monumentMote Castle in Cumberland stands as a scheduled monument, preserving a medieval mound and late medieval beacon. Whether…
• St Mungo's CastleScheduled monumentSt Mungo's Castle in Cumberland, England, is a scheduled monument whose identity depends on a point taken from an…
• Slight univallate hillfort on Castle CragScheduled monumentCastle Crag in Cumberland still holds a slight univallate hillfort, a low ridge of earth and stone that once watched…
• Scaleby Castle moated siteScheduled monumentWater still ghosts the moat, mapping the chamber walls that timber and pride once raised above it. The castle has not…
• Moated site of Wolsty CastleScheduled monumentWolsty Castle in Cumberland, England, is a scheduled monument on the National Heritage List, though the name Wolsty and…
• Millom Castle (ruined portions)Scheduled monumentMillom Castle (ruined portions) stands in Cumberland, England, recorded as a scheduled monument. The distinction…
• Mile Castle 60Archaeological placeMile Castle 60 marks the sixtieth mile of a long military road in Cumberland. A man may have walked past it at dusk…
• Mile Castle 52Archaeological placeMile Castle 52 marks the fiftieth segment of a long military line stretching across Cumberland. It is not a grand…
• Mile Castle 53Archaeological placeMile Castle 53 stands in Cumberland as a small military marker on a long border, numbering the distance between larger…
• Mile Castle 51Archaeological placeMile Castle 51 sits in Cumberland, England, marked only as an archaeological place on a public map. The saved point is…
• Mile Castle 59Archaeological placeMile Castle 59 marks the fiftyninth segment of a long military line cutting across Cumberland. The numbers suggest…
• Mile Castle 55Archaeological placeMile Castle 55 stands in Cumberland, England, a small military marker on a long border line. It may have watched for…
• Mile Castle 58Archaeological placeMile Castle 58 marks a small military outpost on the northern border, built to watch the road and report danger back…
• Liddel Strength motte and bailey castle and fortified tower houseScheduled monumentMud, marble, memory: Liddel Strength is a borderland castle where an old earthwork and a later stone tower still face…
• Hayes CastleScheduled monumentHayes Castle stands as a scheduled monument in Cumberland, preserving a tower house built upon a motte and surrounded…
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate in wall mile 64Scheduled monumentMile 64 still carries the vallum between Drawdykes Castle and Whiteclosegate, a scheduled monument in Cumberland where…
• Enclosure castle known as Triermain CastleScheduled monumentHalf a hectare of scarred earth holds the flat footprint of a tower that resisted every siege and storm for centuries.…
• Crew Castle bastleScheduled monumentCrew Castle bastle stands in Cumberland as a scheduled monument, though its exact age and purpose have faded from human…
• Cockermouth Castle: medieval enclosure castle and site of earlier motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentCockermouth Castle in Cumberland, England, is a scheduled monument and a medieval enclosure castle built on the remains…
• Castlesteads Roman fort and the vallum between the track to the east of Castlesteads fort and the Cam Beck in the westScheduled monumentCastlesteads Roman fort and its eastern vallum stand as a scheduled monument in Cumberland, marking the edge of a…
• Castle HillScheduled monumentCastle Hill in Cumberland, England, is a scheduled monument whose centre is already recorded. The name suggests a…
• Castle Crag Hill FortArchaeological placeCastle Crag Hill Fort stands in Cumberland, England, a rocky sentinel where human hands may have shaped the edge of the…
• Burgh by Sands Roman fort, Beaumont camp, Burgh Castle and Hadrian's Wall from boundary west of churchyard, Beaumont to Burgh Head in wall miles 70 and 71Scheduled monumentBeaumont camp and Burgh Castle stand inside wall miles 70 and 71, where Hadrian's Wall cut across Cumberland. The fort…
• Brampton Motte (Castle)Archaeological placeBrampton Motte (Castle) still stands as an archaeological scar in Cumberland, marking a lost castle rather than a…
• Birdoswald Roman fort and the section of Hadrian's Wall and vallum between the River Irthing and the field boundaries east of milecastle 50Scheduled monumentMilecastle 50 still marks the eastern edge of Birdoswald, a Roman fort where Hadrian's Wall and vallum stretched toward…
• Beaumont motte castle and section of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 70 including turret 70aScheduled monumentBeaumont motte castle and section of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 70 including turret 70a stands in Cumberland, England…
• Dunwalloght CastleArchaeological placeDunwalloght Castle in Cumberland is a phantom, an archaeological place with no date, no shape and no proof beyond a…
• Mile Castle 56Archaeological placeMile Castle 56 marks a small military post on the northern border of Cumberland. It may have watched a road, counted…
• Mile Castle 54Archaeological placeMile Castle 54 marks a small military post on the Cumberland border, built to control movement and send messages across…
• Roman fortlet 40m SSW of Castle FieldsScheduled monumentMansland water closed the chamber, filled the lungs and deleted the boy. The fortlet stands forty metres away, small…
• Castle Hill motte and site of a World War II gun emplacementScheduled monumentCastle Hill in Cumberland carries a medieval motte and a World War II gun emplacement, saving both in one monument. The…
• Castle How hillfortScheduled monumentCastle How hillfort stands in Cumberland, England, marked as a scheduled monument. The hill may have shown people…
• Hadrian's Wall vallum between the M6 motorway and Drawdykes Castle in wall mile 64Scheduled monumentMile 64 keeps a broken stone ridge and a buried earth bank between the motorway and Drawdykes Castle. The vallum is not…

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