Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Port Carlisle

Port Carlisle, in N. of Cumberland, on Solway Firth, 12 miles NW. of Carlisle by rail; was formerly connected by canal with Carlisle, as the harbour of which it has been superseded by Silloth.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Administrative units: Cumberland AncC
Place: Port Carlisle

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