Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for St John in the Vale

St John in the Vale, eccl. dist., Crosthwaite par., Cumberland, on SE. side of Keswick, pop. 311; the Vale of St John is narrow, but very picturesque; it is bounded on the E. by Great Dodd, and on the W. by Naddle Fell, and is traversed by St John's Beck.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Crosthwaite Parish       Cumberland Ancient County
Place: St John in the Vale

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