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Coupland Castle is a tower house rather than a castle, and was probably built at the end of the 16th century, sometime after 1584. [2] The tower has three storeys, with an attic on top and a small projecting tower carried up the south wall. Between the two towers, the entrance to the castle with the date 1594 inscribed on the door jamb. [3]
Coupland is a small village in Cumbria, England, in the civil parish of Warcop. It is situated a short distance to the south-east of Appleby-in-Westmorland, just to the north of the A66, [1] and lies within the historic county boundaries of Westmorland. The name 'coupland' may be a corruption of the surname coupman (cf. Kaupmann) [2]
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Coupland Castle is situated in the village and is a Grade I listed building. [4] It is a tower house rather than a castle, and was probably built at the end of the 16th century. The tower has three storeys with an attic on top and a small projecting tower carried up the south wall.
There are over 9000 Grade I listed buildings in England. ... Location Type Completed [note 1] ... Coupland Castle. More images. Bellister Castle:
The questions mentioned above remain to be answered because now we enter the period that used to be called the Dark Ages, due to the lack of archaeological and paleobotanical finds, and the unreliability of the documentary sources that we are forced to use as a result (although the last few decades have provided more in the way of archaeological evidence due to the improvement in dating ...
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Britannia is the title of each of three atlases created in England the late 16th and mid 18th centuries, describing some or all of the British Isles. These are the books published by William Camden (in 1586, reprinted 1693) and Richard Blome (in 1673) and John Ogilby (in 1675).