Barker's and Forrest creeks, at the junction of which the town
stands. Slate and flagstone are largely quarried in the district, which
also produces wine and much fruit, especially apples. Castlemaine has a
reputation as a health resort in cases of pulmonary complaints.

CASTLE RISING, a village of Norfolk, England, 4 m. by road N.E. of
King's Lynn. The Norman castle for which it is famous stands on slightly
elevated ground overlooking, to the west, the low marshy coast of the
Wash. Its site is enclosed by artificial ramparts of earth and a dyke
which is crossed by an ancient bridge. The keep is square and massive,
and fairly perfect, and it is not difficult to reconstruct the
arrangement of the rooms. In some parts, especially the entrance, the
Norman carving is very rich. The foundations of a small chapel with
apsidal eastern termination have been discovered outside the castle. The
village of Castle Rising is the decayed remnant of a town of no little
importance. Its church of St Laurence is late Norman, with much rich
ornamentation; it shows traces of considerable alterations in the Early
English period, but is an admirable example of the earlier style.

It is a matter of dispute whether Rising was or was not an early Saxon
settlement; in Domesday Book the manor is given as having belonged to
Archbishop Stigand, from whom it had passed to Odo of Bayeux, whose
estates were confiscated in 1088. Granted to William de Albini, whose
son built Rising Castle, it passed first to Robert de Montalt, and then
by sale to Isabel, queen of England, in 1332, remaining in the
possession of the crown until Henry VIII. exchanged it for other lands
with the duke of Norfolk. In 1269 an inquisition found that the lord had
the return of all writs. In 1275 Robert de Montalt died seised of the
manor and vill with the assize of bread and ale. An inquisition of 1379,
although it makes no mention of the borough, states that the lord has
the rents of assizes, and perquisites of the courts with view of
frank-pledge. A mayor is first mentioned in 1343, and a borough existed
in the 15th century. A survey of 1589-1590 declared that Castle Rising
was an ancient borough by prescription according to the grant made to
Hugh de Albini by Henry III. In 1589-1590 the recorder was chosen by the
lord of the manor. The mayor, the only member of the corporation, whose
sole duty was the holding of the assize of bread and ale, was chosen by
the burgesses a