
Carlisle is the administrative centre of Cumbria, home of BBC Radio Cumbria, ITV Border and various high profile companies including; Pirelli, United Biscuits, WA Developments, Eddie Stobart and Nestlé. With fantastic shopping, a choice of restaurants, bars and cafes, a superb central museum and art gallery, and a striking cathedral; Carlisle has a contemporary vibrancy all it's own.
Carlisle Tourist Information Centre, Old Town Hall, Greenmarket, Carlisle Tel: 01228 625600.
Carlisle tourist information
Did you know?
Her Majestys Theatre in Carlisle was the first Theatre ever to be lit by Electricity in 1880
Did you know that the 1st pillar box went up on Botchergate in Carlisle in 1853
The novelist Sir Walter Scott married in Carlisle Cathedral in 1797.
Carlisle began as a Roman town called Luguvallium. The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and about 78 AD the governor, Agricola, built a wooden fort on the site of Carlisle
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