Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Loweswater

Loweswater, township, St Bees par., Cumberland, 7 miles S. of Cockermouth, 9415 ac. (190 water), pop. 315; P.O. Loweswater Lake is 1¼ mile long and about 600 yds. broad; its S. shore is fringed with wood.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Loweswater Ch/CP       St Bees AP/CP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Loweswater

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