estled in the Eden Valley south-east of Penrith is Brougham Castle (pronounced “broom”). Approach across a sheep-grazed lawn, with the river Eamont (“yammon”) on your right, and you’ll see Brougham’s keep rising from the red-stoned complex, square and elegantly Romanesque. Begun in the second decade of the 13th century, when castle builders favoured circular structures, it seems older
