City Centre, Carlisle
Box Arena
Eight-hundred-capacity events arena off Botchergate, licensed and running club nights, bare-knuckle boxing and touring shows since 2023.
History
Not a pub, but a licensed room big enough to matter: an indoor multifunctional events arena, in its own words, holding about eight hundred, tucked behind Botchergate in the Portlands development.
It opened in 2023 and it runs an unusually wide programme. Club nights and touring dance brands, a September weekender, and bare-knuckle fighting: the Cumbrian Spartan Ring Warz nights sell out on the card rather than the venue. Ticket agents classify it variously as a nightclub and as a theatre, which tells you how hard it is to pigeonhole.
The premises are older than the name. The licence, PL120, has a history running back through a change of premises name in 2014 and transfers in 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2023, the last of those on 4 October 2023, which is when Box Arena takes it over. Something else was licensed in this unit for at least a decade before.
It sits in the same block as the Englishgate Plaza bars, and between them they make the top of Botchergate the densest licensed corner in the city.
- Open late
- Live music
Where
7 Portland Place, Carlisle CA1 1RL
Opening hours
| Mon | Unknown |
| Tue | Unknown |
| Wed | Unknown |
| Thu | Unknown |
| Fri | Unknown |
| Sat | Unknown |
| Sun | Unknown |
No opening hours: it opens for events. Check the listings for whatever is on.
Hours are kept by hand and change without warning. Ring ahead if it matters.
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Sources
- Cumberland Council licensing register: premises licence PL120, transferred 4 October 2023, at Unit 7 Portlands, Botchergate
- Skiddle: Box Arena, 7 Portland Place, capacity 800
- UK Theatre Web: Box Arena, Carlisle, opened 2023
- BOX ARENA on Facebook: an indoor multifunctional events arena in Carlisle city centre
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