Carlisle Castle

For this post we are going a little way over the Northumberland/Cumbria border...to the border city of Carlisle. It tends to be one of the less glamorous castles but there is real history here.
For instance these are just three lesser known facts

1. Carlisle is a Crown castle. One of the only ones outside London.
2. Apart from the Tower of London there is no other Castle who has had a regimented billeted there for so long.
3. When Rudolf Hess flew into Scotland during WW2 he was captured and taken south. One of his overnight stops was at the Carlisle Castle.

We have the Ostlers at Gilsland which is only a few miles east of Carlisle. Anyway this is just a short blog to remind our visitors of what is up here.