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Dacre

There is much of historic interest in this village. The Church occupies a site of a former monastery, which was mentioned by the Venerable Bede in his accounts of Cumberland in the 8th century. A later reference shows that in AD926 the Peace of Dacre was signed between Athelstan of England and Constantine of Scotland. Fragments of masonry are reputed to have come from the monastery, and the four weather-beaten carvings of bears in the churchyard are probably of Anglo-Viking origin. The bears are shown, respectively, sleeping, being attacked by a cat, shaking off the cat and eating the cat. A 14th-century pele tower, Dacre Castle (private) is a typical example of the fortified house or small castle that was common in northern England during the Middle Ages. This was the seat of the Dacre family, Catholic Earls of Cumberland, and its turrets and battlements have walls that are eight feet thick.