Qualla: Castletown https://qualla.com/castletown en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Castletown https://qualla.com/castletown Castletown: Introduction https://qualla.com/castletown/ The bus from Ronaldsway takes about ten minutes to get into Castletown, and you arrive almost without warning at a square that turns out to be the heart of an old capital. Castle Rushen is right there, grey and battlemented above the inner harbour. Two convenience stores, a couple of churches, a fishing fleet smaller than it used to be. For eight hundred years this place was the seat of government of the Isle of Man, and then in the nineteenth century the bureaucrats packed up for Douglas — Tynwald itself migrating last, in 1874. What stayed behind is the kind of small town that rewards arriving by foot, working out the angles, and giving itself an afternoon.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/castletown-wk/gcse-castletown-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Castletown: Arriving https://qualla.com/castletown/ Most visitors come in by air. Ronaldsway, the Isle of Man Airport, sits two miles north, and buses 1, 2 and 11 each run hourly from Douglas down through the airport to Castletown, Port Erin and Port St Mary — collectively a service every twenty minutes for most of the day. The la...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/castletown-wk/gcse-castletown-arriving.mp3 0:06 2 full Castletown: The Old Town https://qualla.com/castletown/ The streets around the castle are Georgian and Victorian, low and trim, with the Parade running along the harbour and Arbory Street sliding away inland. Old St Mary's on Market Square is the original Anglican church, now offices; St Mary's on the Harbour, on Hope Street, opened a...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/castletown-wk/gcse-castletown-the-old-town.mp3 0:06 3 full Castletown: Out to Langness https://qualla.com/castletown/ East of the airport runway, the road slips around to Derbyhaven, once a significant port and now essentially a Castletown neighbourhood. From there a single causeway runs onto Langness Peninsula. The Castletown Golf Links spread across the dunes — 6,431 yards from the white tees,...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/castletown-wk/gcse-castletown-out-to-langness.mp3 0:06 4 full Castletown: Eat, Drink, Stay https://qualla.com/castletown/ Provisions in town are the two basics: Coop Food on the Parade by the castle, and Shoprite on Arbory Street. For a drink at the end of the day, The Sidings sits right at the railway station, taking its name from the line it backs onto — open Sunday through Thursday from 11:30 in ...

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