Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BRANTHWAITE

BRANTHWAITE, a township, with a r. station, in Dean parish, Cumberland; on the Cleator railway, 5 miles SE of Workington. Real property, £2,529. Pop., 281. Houses, 58. Stone is quarried; and there are paper and woollen mills, and a Methodist chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township, with a r station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Dean AP/CP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Branthwaite

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