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LOWES-WATER, a parochial chapelry and a lake in Cockermouth district, Cumberland. The chapelry lies 7 miles S of Cockermouth r. station; has a post office under Cockermouth; contains the hamlets of Mockerkin and Sosgill; impinges on Crummock-water; and owns St. Bees for its mother parish. Acres, 6,473. Real property, £2,220. Pop., 392. Houses, 83. The property is much subdivided. Much of the surface is upland; and a large proportion is picturesque. Lead ore occurs in the hills, and Lydian stone is found. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Valne, £49.* Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church was rebuilt in 1827; and occupies the site of an ancient chapel, founded by a prior of St. Bees. There are a parochial school, and charities £12.-The lake lies on the SW side of the chapelry, in a vale projecting laterally westward from the head of the vale of Lorton, and flanked on the N side by Low fell, on the S side by Blake fell; is about a mile long, less than ½ a mile wide, and about 60 feet deep; sends its superfluence 1½ mile to Crummockwater; and shares in that lake's mountain scenery.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parochial chapelry and a lake" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Cockermouth RegD/PLU Cumberland AncC |
| Place: | Loweswater |
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