Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Threlkeld

Threlkeld, eccl. dist., township, and vil. with ry. sta., Greystoke par., Cumberland, 3½ miles NE. of Keswick - dist., pop. 449; township, 5956 ac., pop. 419; P.O.; Threlkeld Hall, once the residence of Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, a powerful knight in the reign of Hem j/ VII., is now a farm-house.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Threlkeld Ch/CP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Threlkeld

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