Château d'Egremont

Le château d'Egremont est situé dans la ville anglaise d'Egremont (Cumbria).

1. Histoire

Le château d'origine est construit sur un monticule au-dessus de la rivière Ehen, à l'emplacement d'un fort danois, à la suite de la conquête du Cumberland en 1092 par Guillaume II d'Angleterre. Le château actuel est construit par William Meschin, entre 1120 et 1135. D'autres ajouts sont effectués au XIIIe siècle. Il tombe progressivement en ruine. Le château assure la protection de la ville que Guillaume crée également. La longue et large rue offre un marché aux commerçants, qui bénéficient de privilèges et d'une sécurité en échange du paiement de péages. Une partie des bénéfices est sans doute utilisée par ce père fondateur d'Egremont dans la fondation du Prieuré de St Bees, dédié à Sainte Bega, à St Bees sur la côte de Cumbrie. Le château est de conception Motte-et-Bailey. On dit qu'il possédait autrefois une corne que seul l'héritier légitime pouvait souffler. La légende a fait l'objet du poème de William Wordsworth, The Horn of Egremont Castle.

1. Références

(en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Egremont Castle » (voir la liste des auteurs).

1. Liens externes

Ressource relative à l'architecture : National Heritage List for England

Portail des châteaux Portail de l’Angleterre Portail des monuments classés au Royaume-Uni

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Wilton, Cumbria

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St John, Beckermet

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Beckermet

Beckermet is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, between Egremont and Seascale. The parish had a population of 1,619 in the 2011 census. Historically in Cumberland, it is served by Braystones railway station and is less than a mile west of the A595 road. It is around 2 miles (3 km) from the Sellafield nuclear plant which may be seen from the higher parts of the village.

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Dent (fell)

Dent is a small fell on the fringe of the English Lake District near the towns of Cleator Moor and Egremont. Sometimes known as Long Barrow, it is traditionally the first fell encountered by hikers following Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk. It slopes from the westerly point of the Lake District National Park. At its highest point it stands at only 352 metres (1155 feet), but offers uninterrupted views of the Cumbrian coast from the Ravenglass estuary in the south to the Solway Firth and across to Scotland in the north. In the west the Isle of Man can be easily seen, and views to the east extend to the high peaks of Pillar and the Sca Fells. ‘Dent Hill’ was one of the five stations in Cumberland used by the Ordnance Survey to measure the angles of Principal Triangles for their initial survey of Britain in the years up to and including 1809. The other stations were Black Combe, Scilly Banks (on the outskirts of Whitehaven), High Pike and Cross Fell. The absence of a trig point suggests that Dent was not used in the Retriangulation of Great Britain. Over the past 20 years a man-made forest has been planted on the slopes of the fell facing north towards Cleator Moor. This process was carried out to reduce the rate of erosion on the fell. There is already a mature forest on the southern slopes of the fell and public pedestrian access via a gate at Nannycatch. There is a road at the base of the fell, known locally as ‘the fell road’ (was known as The Roman Road - Fell Road referred to the road from Ennerdale village to Calder Abby. Usage changed over the past 50 years), which runs from Cleator Moor to Egremont. The road is still used by locals, despite its poor quality and that it doesn't represent a shortcut. The River Ehen also tracks along the base of the fell and the aforementioned road. Dent, along with Flat Fell, is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. His clockwise route to the two summits starts at Wath Brow.

Beckermet railway station

Beckermet railway station is a disused rail station located in the village of Beckermet in Cumbria. Tracks were laid southwards from Whitehaven and Moor Row as far as Egremont by the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway, opening to passengers on 1 July 1857. By the 1860s, the Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway company sought to extend southwards from Egremont to meet the coastal line at Sellafield, aiming for Millom, Barrow-in-Furness and beyond. The Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway company opposed this, so the two companies came to an accommodation and built the Egremont to Sellafield extension as a joint line. Beckermet was the sole intermediate passenger station on the extension. The station was on the western edge of the village in Cumbria, England.

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