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Wolsty is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Holme Low in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located three-and-a-quarter miles south of Silloth-on-Solway, five miles west of Abbeytown, three-and-a-quarter miles north of the village of Mawbray, and twenty-three miles west of Cumbria's county town, Carlisle. The B5300 coast road, which heads north toward Silloth-on-Solway and south to Mawbray, Allonby, and Maryport, is three-quarters of a mile away by road, or less than a quarter of a mile by way of an unpaved farm track.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.google.it/maps/@54.8454293,-3.3949189,379m/data=!3m1!1e3 )〕 ==History and etymology== The name "Wolsty" is derived from the Old English ''wulf-stīg'', meaning a "wolf-frequented path". There have been several recorded variant spellings, including Woulstie, Worsty, Wristie, Wolmsty, and Ulsty. The area around Wolsty was fortified during the Roman period, when a series of milefortlets were constructed beyond the western end of Hadrian's Wall to guard against incursions across the Solway Firth. Milefortlets 13 and 14 are located in the vicinity of the hamlet.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=9682 )〕 During the 14th century, coastal raids by Scots were still commonplace, plaguing settlements like Wolsty. To defend the vulnerable Holme Abbey at nearby Abbeytown, a castle was constructed at Wolsty to defend the coast. After falling into disrepair by the 1570s, attempts to repair the castle were undertaken in the 1630s, but with the kingdoms of England and Scotland edging closer toward friendship, the castle was no longer needed and had been demolished by the year 1700. The castle would have proven formidable to raiding parties; remaining archaeological evidence has shown that there was a moat, and that the walls were over two metres thick.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.holmelow-pc.org.uk/page27.html )〕 The castle is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as a site of "national importance".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1013508 )〕 An archaeological dig was carried out on the site in July 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.holmelow-pc.org.uk/page27.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.grampusheritage.co.uk/projects/solway-wetlands-landscape-partnership-scheme-lps/wolsty-castle-and-st-christians-chapel-geophysical-surveys-and-excavations/ )〕 Wolsty also appears to have taken part in the "seawake", a night watch along the coast. Residents of coastal communities took turns standing watch along the coast to guard against raids. In the 1570s, farmers at Wolsty would have had to trek to Dubmill, a little over four miles away past Hailforth and Salta, to grind their grain at the mill there.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/n-westmorland-records/vol7/pp167-176 )〕 The hamlet became part of the new parish of Holme Low (previously known as Holme St. Pauls or Low Holme), when it was separated from the parish of Holme Abbey in 1845.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.holmelow-pc.org.uk/localhistory.html )〕 This was done following the construction of St. Paul's church at nearby Causewayhead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hstchg/causewayhead.htm )〕 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「Wolsty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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