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About Carlisle
Carlisle lies on the very edge of the Lake District and is England’s most northerly city today. This has not always been the case as there was a time when Carlisle was in Scotland; this is why it is not featured in the Domesday Book. It also contains both the highest and lowest points in any city, rising from sea level to more than 2,000 feet at the top of Coal Fell. There has been a settlement in this region since the Celtic warlords dominated this area, but it was the Romans who built a garrison at Luguvalium as one of the last outposts of their empire. The garrison town remained after the Romans left, as did the fort of Caerligaluid, which eventually evolved into Carlisle. Arthurian legends claim that both King Arthur and Merlin visited Carlisle in the Dark Ages, but nothing of that…...
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