Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PETTERIL-CROOKS

PETTERIL-CROOKS, a township in Hesket-in-the-Forest parish, Cumberland; on the river Petteril, 8½ miles N N W of Penrith. Acres, 4, 916. Real property, £4,033. Pop., 528. Houses, 95. Petteril-Green and Petteril-Bank are chief residences.


(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: Petteril

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