Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ETTERBY

ETTERBY, a township in Stanwix parish, Cumberland; on the river Eden, near the Carlisle and Silloth railway, 1 mile NW of Carlisle. Acres, 297. Real property, £1, 629. Pop., 319. Houses, 61. Etterby Scar here commands a brilliant view, over Carlisle and the surrounding plain, away to Skiddaw and Helvellyn.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stanwix Rural CP/AP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Etterby

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