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Muncaster Castle and
Hardknott
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Muncaster Castle and Hardknott
THERE is, perhaps, no more beautiful dwelling-place in this
country than the Castle of Muncaster. It is a solid pile of
red sandstone and granite buildings clustered round an old
tower of Roman origin, called Agricola's Tower, the walls of
which are nine feet, or thereabouts, in thickness. It stands
high on the fellside on a kind of shoulder of the hill,
gazing out over the valley of the Esk, out to sea to the
west, away up to the mountain land, Sca Fell and his
brethren, to the east.
The origin of Muncaster fades away into the mists of
tradition. The original Roman Tower was said to have been
built to guard St. Michael's ford over the Esk, which is
just below the castle, as a bridge has been built "by men of
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