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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lowside Quarter like this:
LOWSIDE QUARTER, a township in St. Bees parish, Cumberland; on the coast, and on the Whitehaven and Furness railway, 4 miles S of Whitehaven. It contains the hamlets of Upper Town, Middle Town, Nether Town, Braystones, and Lowmill. Acres, 2,666; of which 726 are water. Pop. in 1851,362; in 1861,264. Houses, 49. The decrease of pop. arose mainly from the destruction by fire of a paper mill. Egermont Castle, now a ruin, is within the township.
Lowside Quarter is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lowside Quarter itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lowside Quarter in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2188
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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