Description
Wythop, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Brigham parish, Cumberland, on Bassenthwaite Lake, near Bassenthwaite station on the Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith railway, 5 miles E of Cockermouth. There is a post and telegraph office at Bassenthwaite Lake railway station under Keswick; money order office, Bassenthwaite. Acreage of township, 3053 of land and 300 of water; population, 112. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £69. The church was rebuilt in 1867, is in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and bell-turret. Hudson, the editor of " Josephus," was a native. Wythop Hall, dating from the 17th century, is a farmhouse.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
