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Bewcastle is a large civil parish in the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 411, reducing to 391 at the 2011 Census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parish population 2011 )〕 The parish is large and includes the settlements of Roadhead, Shopford, Blackpool Gate, Roughsike and The Flatt. To the north the parish extends to the border with Scotland. As well as Bewcastle Castle this border area includes Askerton Castle. ==Etymology== The origin of the name Bewcastle can be traced accurately from its spelling in ancient documents. These show that it was originally "bothy/booth caster", which translates as "the Roman fort where there were bothies or shielings". 'Cæster' is "an Anglian side-form of OE 'ceaster', referring to the defences of the Roman camp...a medieval fortress was built within these defences..." The original form of the first element "was clearly 'Buth-' from ON búð, 'booth." (OE=Old English; ON=Old Norse). Antiquarians, who did not have our access to well-catalogued and studied ancient documents, leapt at the chance to link the place name with a semi-mythological figure named Bueth, due to his romantic links with the prestigious Barony of Gilsland. The well-respected book "The Place-names of Cumberland" 〔Armstrong, 1950, p..60-61〕 states that it is ''impossible'' for Bewcastle to be named after Bueth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bewcastle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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