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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Drumburgh like this:
DRUMBURGH, a township in Bowness parish, Cumberland; on the Solway frith and the Carlisle and Silloth railway, 8½ miles WNW of Carlisle. It has a station on the railway. Real property, £3, 423. Pop., 421. Houses, 94. The Roman station Gabrosentum, on the Roman wall, was here; and a seat of the Dacres, called Drumburgh Castle, occupies the site of the station, and was built out of the ruins of its masonry.
Drumburgh is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Drumburgh itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Drumburgh in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20901
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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