NEWLANDS, a hamlet and a chapelry in Crosthwaite parish, Cumberland. The hamlet lies on the rivulet of the vale of Newlands, 3½ miles S by W of Braithwaite r.station, and 5½ S W of Keswick. The chapelry includes the hamlet and the main part of the vale. Post-town, Keswick, under Windermere. Real property, £1, 893; of which £850 are in mines. Pop., 211. Houses, 36. The vale of Newlands commences at the E side of Hindscarthmountain; extends 5½ miles northward, parallel to the W side of Derwent-water, at the average distance fromit of 1¾ mile; is flanked, on the W side, by Hindscarth, Goldscope, and Causey-Pike, on the E side, by High Crag, Maiden-Moor, and Cat-Bells; is traversed, fromhead to foot, by a stream flowing to the head of Bassen-thwaite-water; has a rich rural character, finely pastoraland well-wooded; and presents, from point to point, but especially between Swinside and Foe Park, very beautiful close views. Copper mines were discovered here in the times of Elizabeth; yielded then so much silver and gold as entitled them to pass from the owner of theground, the Earl of Northumberland, to the Crown; suffered desolation, by destruction of the smelting-houses and the works in the civil wars of Charles I.; and, since that time, have been worked on a much smaller scale. Lead ore also has been worked, and slate has been quarried. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £90.* Patron, the Vicar of Crosthwaite.

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