Wythop, Cumberland

Historical Description

Wythop, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Brigham parish, Cumberland, on Bassenthwaite Lake, near Bassenthwaite station on the Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith railway, 5 miles E of Cockermouth. There is a post and telegraph office at Bassenthwaite Lake railway station under Keswick; money order office, Bassenthwaite. Acreage of township, 3053 of land and 300 of water; population, 112. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £69. The church was rebuilt in 1867, is in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and bell-turret. Hudson, the editor of " Josephus," was a native. Wythop Hall, dating from the 17th century, is a farmhouse.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wythop from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wythop)

Land and Property

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Villages, Hamlets, &c