Description
Lazonby, a village, a township, and a parish in Cumberland. The village stands on the river Eden, 1 mile SW of Kirkoswald, with a station on the Midland railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Since 1891 the village has been supplied with water by gravitation, and a system of sewerage was completed in 1894. The township comprises 8378 acres; population, 719. The parish includes also the township of PIumpton Wall, is traversed by Watling Street, and contains within PIumpton Wall township vestiges of a Roman station, supposed to be Bremetenracum or Old Penrith. Acreage, 11, 430; population of the civil parish, 1036; of the ecclesiastical, 757. The manor belongs to the Musgrave family. Lazonby House is the seat of the Macleans. Much of the land is moor. Traces of a ruined moated castle are at Castle Rigg, and there are several cairns.
A very high rock with an artificial cave, called the Giant's Chamber or Sampson's Cave, is in Baron Wood. A number of the inhabitants are employed in the freestone and milling-stone quarries. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £475 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Carlisle. The church was rebuilt in 1863 at a cost of, £5000 in the place of the former one, and consists of chancel, nave with four bays, south aisle, and a western tower. The vicarage of PIumpton Wall is a separate benefice. There are-Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a lecture hall, library, and reading-room, erected in 1866.
