Description
Bassenthwaite, a village, a parish, and a lake in Cumberland. The village stands on the NE side of the lake, opposite to and about 3 miles from Bassenthwaite Lake railway station, 7 miles NNW of Keswick, under which it lias a post and money order office; telegraph office, Bassenthwaite Lake railway station. the parish is divided into two constablewicks, High-side and Low-side. Acreage, 6915; population, 541. the surface is liighly diversified and picturesque, ranging from the summit of Skiddaw to the meadows on the lake. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, ?190 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. the parish church was restored in 1874, and a liandsome chapel of ease built in 1878. There are small charities. The lake is in the basin of the Derwent river; commences 3 miles NW of the foot of Derwent Water; extends 4 miles north-north-westward, with a mean breadth of 1/8 of a mile; and has a surface elevation of 226 feet above the level of the sea. Its bosom is not gemmed with any island; its head is flat and open, but looks away to the mountains round Derwent Water; its W side is flanked by a range of wooded fells, mostly rising from the water's edge; its foot is screened by vale and slope, going up at 3 miles distance to Binsey Hill; and its E side is flanked by the grand skirts and shoulders of Skiddaw, crowned at 5 1/2 miles' distance by that mountain's summit. Pike and perch abound in the lake, and salmon pass through it to the Upper Derwent,