Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Plumbland

Plumbland, par. and vil., Cumberland - par., 2568 ac., pop. 650; vil., 6 miles NE. of Cockermouth; has a grammar school; limestone and coal are worked.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Plumbland AP/CP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Plumbland

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