Arkholme-with-Cawood
Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ N , 2 ° 38 ′ W
Arkholme-with-Cawood is a small town with 334 inhabitants (2001) and a civil parish in Lancashire , England . The place is often simply referred to as Arkholme, because the addition Cawood refers to a forest. The place is mentioned as Ergune in the Domesday Book .
Arkholme is located on a natural hill above the River Lune , which you could cross here by ferry or by a ford. On the eastern edge of the village directly on the River Lune are the remains of a fortress from the 12th century . The fortification was built on an artificially created hill, a moth , the base of which today has a diameter of 30 m and a height of 14 m. Excavations have shown that this mountain was once raised by 2.75 m. The castle is one of several castles in the River Lune valley that no longer exist, but which once served as an important line of defense against enemy incursions from the north into England, across the Shap Summit pass and then along the course of the River Lune could be carried out at Tebay , protected and still today demonstrate the borderland character of this area after the Norman conquest.
The 15th century church of St John the Baptist now stands on the site of the fort's former defense tower . Since there is no evidence of a church in Arkholme from before the Norman conquest, it is believed that the church emerged from a chapel in the defensive tower. The church and the tombs surrounding it have destroyed many archaeological traces of the fortress. The church, which was last rebuilt in 1897, is now a Grade II * protected monument.
Since no Arkholme soldier died in World War I , which was seen as a special grace, the place calls itself a Thankful Village .
Until 1960 the place had a station on the route of the former Furness and Midland Joint Railway , which also served as a stop for Kirkby Lonsdale and the route is now part of the Leeds – Morecambe line . The station building is still standing, but has been converted into a residential building.
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- William Farrer, J. Brownbill (Ed.), A history of the County of Lancaster, Vol. 8 , London: Constable, 1914. pp. 204-206. Entry Arkholme with Cawood. Here: online