Description
Mosser, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1883, in Brigham parish, Cumberland, on the river Cocker, under Whinfield Fell, 4 miles S of Cockermouth railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Cockermouth. Acreage, 1490; population, 89. the manor belongs to Lord Leconfield. The ecclesiastical parish comprises also the townships of Blindbothel and Eaglesfield. Population, 437. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £60 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The old church is still used for divine service, but a new cliurch in the Gothic style was erected in 1891 on a site given by the Earl of Lonsdale.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
