CROGLIN, a parish in Penrith district, Cumberland; on the Croglin river, under Cumrew Fell, 4 miles NNE of Kirkoswald, and 7½ SSE of Milton r. station. It has a post office under Penrith. Acres, 9, 180. Real property, £1, 773. Pop., 254. Houses, 58. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to the Hastingses, the Whartons, and the Wyndhams. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rev. E. Bowman. The church is partly early English; is in tolerable condition; and has a curious stone cross. A school has £24 from endowment; and had, for a pupil, Dr. Locke, the founder of Westminster lying-in-hospital.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))