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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Moorthwaite like this:
MOORTHWAITE, a township in Cumwhitton parish, Cumberland; on the river Eden, 8 miles SE by E of Carlisle. Real property, £1,129. Pop., 144. Houses, 26. Here is a meet for the Aikton harriers.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Moorthwaite by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Cumwhitton | 0 | 3 |
Carlatton | 0 | 2 |
Cotehill | 0 | 3 |
Wetheral | 1 | 2 |
Armathwaite | 0 | 3 |
Cumrew | 0 | 2 |
Faugh | 0 | 2 |
Heads Nook | 0 | 1 |
Great Corby | 0 | 2 |
Fenton | 0 | 2 |
Ainstable | 0 | 2 |
How Mill | 0 | 2 |
Castle Carrock | 0 | 2 |
Beck | 0 | 2 |
Ruckcroft | 0 | 2 |
Warwick Bridge | 0 | 2 |
Little Corby | 0 | 2 |
Hayton | 0 | 2 |
Holme Eden | 0 | 2 |
Scotby | 0 | 2 |