Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KINGWATER

KINGWATER, a township in Lanercost parish, Cumberland; on a streamlet of its own name, a tributary of the Irthing, among the moors near the boundary with Northumberland, 8 miles NE of Brampton. Real property, £4, 219. Pop., 391. Houses, 72. The property belongs chiefly to the Earl of Carlisle and John Ramshay, Esq.


(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: Kingwater CP/Tn       Lanercost AP/CP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Kingwater

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