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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Crosscrake like this:
CROSSCRAKE, a chapelry, with a village, in Heversham parish, Westmoreland; adjacent to the Kendal canal, the river Ken, and the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 1½ mile SSW of Oxenholme r. station, and 3¼ S of Kendal. Post town, Stainton, under Milnthorpe. Rated property, £2, 178. Pop., 544. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £145.* Patron, the Vicar of Heversham. The church is tolerable.
Crosscrake is now part of WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how WESTMORLAND AND FURNESS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Crosscrake itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Crosscrake, in Westmorland and Furness and Westmorland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25376
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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