Place:Crosthwaite, Cumberland, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Crosthwaite from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales:

"CROSTHWAITE, a parish in Cockermouth district, Cumberland; in the basin of the Derwent river, and on the Cockermouth and Penrith railway, round Keswick. It measures about 10 miles by 10; and contains the townships of Keswick, Underskiddaw, Borrowdale, Braithwaite, Thornthwaite, Coledale or Portingscale, and St. John-Castlerigg and Wythburn, and the chapelry of Newlands. Post town, Keswick, under Windermere. Acres, inclusive of Greta-Mills and Briery-Cottages, 58,330. Real property, £25,977; of which £870 are in mines, and £97 in quarries. Population: 5,070. Houses: 1,072. The property is much subdivided. The surface includes Derwent-water, Thirlmere, and part of Bassenthwaite-water, with the richly picturesque vales and mountains around them; and forms a prominent part, in at once size, variety, and richness, of the Lake country. Copper and read ores, with plumbago, are found.

"The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value: £430. Patron: the Bishop of Carlisle. The old church stands ¾ of a mile N of Keswick; is an ancient edifice, with centre and side aisles; and has a hexagonal figured font, a brass of Sir John Ratcliffe, the ancestor of the Earls of Derwent-water, and a monument and white marble statue of the poet Southey. The new church, built a few years ago, at a cost of about £4,000, is a Gothic structure, with tower and spire. The chapelries of Keswick, Grange, Borrowdale, St. Johns-in-the-Vale, Wythburn, Thornthwaite, and Newlands are separate benefices. A grammar school has £99 from endowment; and other charities £356. See Keswick."

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Crosthwaite is a small village located in the post-1974 Parish of Crosthwaite and Lyth, in the South Lakeland District, Cumbria, England.

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A Vision of Britain through Time states that Crosthwaite was only a civil parish until 1866 when its townships became separate civil parishes. The settlement of Crosthwaite became Great Crosthwaite (just outside Keswick to the northwest, and Little Crosthwaite (further along the valley in the same direction). It was located in the civil parish of Underskiddaw until at least the 1930s. There is no reference in A Vision of Britain through Time to the parish of Crosthwaite and Lyth, so it is assumed Underskiddaw was renamed (and possibly divided up) after 1974.

A Vision of Britain through Time lists the following civil parishes as formerly townships and chapelries in Crosthwaite:

• Keswick, a chapelry
• Underskiddaw, a township
• Borrowdale, a chapelry
• Castlerigg St. John's and Wythburn, a township which included

• St. John's in the Vale, a chapelry
• Wythburn, a chapelry

• Above Derwent, a township which included

• Braithwaite (redirected to Above Derwent)
• Thornthwaite (redirected to Above Derwent)
• Portingscale (also known as Coledale) (redirected to Above Derwent)
• Newlands (which was a chapelry) (redirected to Above Derwent)

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