Castle Rigg, Cumberland
Historical Description
Castle-Rigg, an eminence 1½ mile SE of Keswick, in Cumberland. It commands an extensive and gorgeous view, specially noted by the poets Gray and Wordsworth. Castle-rigg, St. John's, and Wythburn form a township in tho parish of Crosthwaite. Area of the township, 3031 acres; population, 1650.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Castle Rigg are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)