Description
Crackenthorpe, a village in Appleby-St Michael or Bongate parish, Westmorland, on the Maiden Way and the river Eden, 2 miles NW of Appleby. Crackenthorpe Hall was anciently the seat of the Michels, and belongs now to the Earl of Lonsdale. Ruins of an ancient chapel are on Chapel Hill. Remains exist of a Roman camp 900 feet by 450, and Roman urns and other relics have been found.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
