BEWCASTLE, (Cumberland) or BUETH-CASTLE, as it is spelt in some records, stands upon the r. Leven, above Sollom-moas, and
is said to have been built about the time of the Norman conquest, by one Bueth. In the R. of Edw. II. it was the
possession of Adam de Swinburn, and passed by marriage of his grandaughter to Sir form de Striveling. Q. Eliz. had a small
garrison in this castle, it being among the mountains on the Scots b.