Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CALTHWAITE

CALTHWAITE, a township in Hesket-in-the-Forest parish, Cumberland; on the river Petterill, and the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 7¼ miles NNW of Penrith. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 1,876. Real property, £1,790. Pop., 269. Houses, 48.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hesket in the Forest CP/AP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Calthwaite

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