LINSTOCK, a township in that part of the parish of STANWIX which is in ESKDALE ward, county of CUMBERLAND, 2 miles (N, E. by E.) from Carlisle, containing 231 inhabitants. Here was anciently a castle, which, till 1229, was the only palace of the bishops of Carlisle; about 1293, Bishop Halton entertained Johannes Romanus, Archbishop of York, in it, with a suite of three hundred persons, during his visitation; and, in 1307, Edward I. kept his court here for six days; this edifice was repaired and modernised in 1768; the ancient square tower is still remaining. A little north-eastward of Linstock is Drawdykes castle, originally built with the materials of the Roman wall, which crossed its site, and partially rebuilt in the seventeenth century, by John Aglionby, Esq., recorder of Carlisle, who placed on the battlements three Roman stone busts, which yet remain: this ancient seat is now used as a farm-house; the Drawdykes estate is toll-free of the city of Carlisle.