Place:Leicester the Castle View, Leicestershire, England

Leicester the Castle View was an extra-parochial area until 1858 and a civil parish from 1858 until 1896. A Vision of Britain through Time

The Victoria County History for Leicestershire provided by British History Online includes an article in entitled The ancient borough: Castle View.

Castle View was a liberty, i.e., an area outside the authority of Leicester borough, consisting of the precincts of Leicester castle located near the centre of the town but considered to be outside the borough boundary. Castle View was finally brought within the borough under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835.

Leicester Castle stands on a slight hill overlooking the river, west of the castle church of St. Mary (St. Mary de Castro). Today only three parts only of the medieval structure remain. The castle fell into decay after the end of the 15th century, and surveys made during the 16th and 17th centuries speak of ruined and derelict buildings. In 1650 the castle was put up for sale, but returned to the Crown at the Restoration [of the Monarchy (1660)]. About 1690 the east wall of the hall was taken down and rebuilt in brick, and although the other surviving buildings were leased privately from 1660 onwards, the hall remained in Crown hands and was used as an assize court, a practice dating from at least 1273.

"Besides the castle itself, the liberty of Castle View included a few houses built round the castle to the north and north-east. In 1801 the population of the liberty was 52. By 1831 it had risen to 127 and in 1891, the last year in which a separate census figure for Castle View was returned in the census, the population was 136. Castle View ceased to exist as an administrative unit in 1896."

Liberty--definition from Wikipedia

A liberty was an English unit originating in the Middle Ages, traditionally defined as an area in which regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e., an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands). It later became a unit of local government administration.

In the case of Castle View, the situation was the opposite. The crown held the castle within the area of the borough of Leicester.

Reference

'The ancient borough: Castle View', in A History of the County of Leicester: Volume 4, the City of Leicester, ed. R A McKinley (London, 1958), pp. 344-345 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol4/pp344-345 [accessed 2 September 2015].