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Carlisle Cumbria

Approximate Population: 71,773

The Romans called their settlement on the site of today’s city Luguvalium, as evidenced by Roman writing tablets recently excavated in the city and displayed at Tullie House Museum, bearing this name as the address. Luguvalium can be interpreted from Latin as “the place, or wall of Lugus” (a local deity).

Around the 11th and 12th centuries, however, surviving documents show the place name spelt Caer (castle) Luel or Llewelyn.   Luel, and its variants are Cumbric personal names, and it has been proposed that this was always the basis of the local name, which had been preserved by the continuity of Cumbric-speaking peoples in the area, from before the Roman imposition of a Latinised version.   The fact that Cumbria (from Cymru or similar roots) was held by the Celtic kings of Rheged in the 9th century may have stimulated a revival of the Cumbric language and reinstatement of earlier Celtic place-names.   Cumbric is no longer spoken, but the surviving Welsh language has “Caerliwelydd” as the modern name for Carlisle.

Carlisle has a compact historic centre, including a castle, museum, cathedral, and semi-intact city walls.   The former law courts or citadel towers which now serve as offices for Cumbria County Council are also of architectural interest.

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