Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BLENCOW (Little)

BLENCOW (Little), a township in Greystoke parish, Cumberland; 4 ½ miles WNW of Penrith. It has a post office, of the name of Blencow, under Penrith. Real property, £674. Pop., 99. Houses, 13. Here is a free grammar school, founded in 1596, with income of £191, at which the first Lord Ellenborough was educated.


(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: Greystoke AP/CP       Cumberland AncC
Place names: BLENCOW     |     BLENCOW LITTLE     |     LITTLE BLENCOW
Place: Little Blencow

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