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Askerton
Askerton is a civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It has a population of 162 according to the 2001 census, decreasing to 141 at the 2011 Census. It includes various hamlets including Kirkcambeck and Shopford. It also covers Side Fell and Askerton Castle. The parish was originally a township of Lanercost parish.
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Askerton Castle
Askerton Castle is a medieval fortified manor house in Cumbria, England.
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Kingwater
Kingwater is a civil parish in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England. At the 2011 census it had a population of 170.
The parish is bordered to the north west by Askerton, to the north by Tarset, to the north east by Henshaw, to the south east by Thirlwall (these three being in Northumberland), to the south by Waterhead and Burtholme and to the south west by Walton.
There is a parish council, the lowest tier of local government.
The parish is described by its parish council as having "several farms, dwellings and small hamlets" but "no school, no pub, no church or village hall".
In 1874 Kingwater was one of four townships within the parish of Lanercost.
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Bewcastle
Bewcastle is a large civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It is in the historic county of Cumberland.
According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 411, reducing to 391 at the 2011 Census. The parish is large and includes the settlements of Roadhead and Sleetbeck. To the north the parish extends to the border with Scotland. To the east the parish bounds Northumberland.
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Triermain Castle
Triermain Castle was a castle in the civil parish of Waterhead, near Brampton, Cumbria, England.
Triermain, Cumbria (Trewermain, Treverman c 1200): 'homestead at the stone' (Welsh tre(f) y maen)
It is featured in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem "Christabel" where the changeling Geraldine is apparently the daughter of Sir Roland de Vaux of Triermain.