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motte, Castle Sowerby
Castle How
locality:-   Castle Sowerby
civil parish:-   Castle Sowerby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   motte and bailey (?) 
locality type:-   castle (?) 
locality type:-   hillfort (site?) 
coordinates:-   NY36033837
1Km square:-   NY3638
10Km square:-   NY33
references:-   Jackson 1990

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 38 14) 
placename:-  Castle How
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

notes:-  
natural feature intrepretted as a fortification

Perriam, D R & Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6

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