Castle Sowerby
| Castle Sowerby | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
 High Moor Dyke | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY3939 |
| Location: | 54°45’22"N, 2°57’0"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 344 (2011) |
| Post town: | Carlisle |
| Postcode: | CA4 |
| Dialling code: | 016974 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Westmorland & Furness |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Penrith and The Border |
Castle Sowerby is a parish of Cumberland, in the broad farmland from the River Caldew eastward to the Roe Beck with no core village but a scatter of hamlets and farmsteads. It had a recorded population of 344 at the 2011 Census. The hamlets of the parish are How Hill, Millhouse, Newlands, Sour Nook, Southernby and Sowerby Row.
Three miles north of Sowerby Row stands Thistlewood Farmhouse, consisting of a pele tower probably built in the early 15th century, with 16th century alterations, and an extension built in the late 17th century.[1]
The parish church, St Kentigern's, stands at the southern edge of the parish at Sowerby Hall, at the end of a minor lane to the farm here by the Gillcambon Beck. The church was built in the 12th century and displaying later additions. It is a Grade II* listed building.[2] The full ecclesiastic parish is the Parish of Castle Sowerby with Sebergham, and is served also by a church in the north of that parish, at Churchtown by Sebergham.
Castle Sowerby was one of the manors which formed part of the Honour of Penrith, which honour has been owned at various times by the Neville Earls of Westmorland, the Crown, the Earls and Dukes of Portland and the Dukes of Devonshire.
References
- ↑ Thistlewood Farmhouse, Castle Sowerby - British Listed Buildings
- ↑ National Heritage List 1326686: Church of St Kentigern, Castle Sowerby
