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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Frizington like this:
FRIZINGTON, a township in Arlecdon parish, Cumberland; on the Whitehaven and Rowrah railway, 3 miles E by S of Whitehaven. It has a station on the railway. Pop., 250. A mineral spring is here; and ironstone is quarried.
Frizington is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Frizington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Frizington in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24558
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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