Brough Castle
Brough Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Brough, Cumbria, England. The castle was built by William Rufus around 1092 within the old Roman fort of Verterae to protect a key route through the Pennine Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Verterae and Church of St Michael.
Verterae
Archaeological site
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Verterae was a Roman fort in the modern-day village of Brough, Cumbria, England. Occupied between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, it protected a key Roman road in the north of England.
Church of St Michael
Church
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Church of St Michael is situated 790 feet southeast of Brough Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brough and Brough Sowerby.
Brough
Village
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Brough, sometimes known as Brough under Stainmore, is a village and civil parish in the historic county of Westmorland and the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, within the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, on the western fringe of the Pennines near Stainmore.
Brough Sowerby
Village
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Brough Sowerby is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is located 22.3 miles southeast of the town of Penrith.
Helbeck
Hamlet
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Helbeck is a settlement and civil parish near the village of Brough, in Westmorland and Furness, in the county of Cumbria, England. There is a wood called Helbeck Wood nearby.
Brough Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in Cumbria, England, UK
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Brough, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Brough Castle” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Castell de Brough”
- Cebuano: “Brough Castle”
- Chinese: “布拉夫城堡”
- Danish: “Brough Castle”
- Dutch: “Brough Castle”
- Finnish: “Broughin linna”
- French: “château de Brough”
- French: “Château de Brough”
- German: “Brough Castle”
- Italian: “Brough Castle”
- Italian: “Castello di Brough”
- Russian: “Замок Бро”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Brough”
- Swedish: “Brough Castle”
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