Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Armathwaite

Armathwaite, vil. with ry. sta., Hesket-in-the-Forest par., E. Cumberland, 10 miles N. of Penrith, on river Eden; P.O., T.O. Armathwaite Castle is now the property of the Earl of Lonsdale.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hesket in the Forest CP/AP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Armathwaite

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