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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dunmail Raise like this:
DUNMAIL-RAISE, a mountain-pass on the mutual border of Westmoreland and Cumberland; on the road from Ambleside to Keswick, 1¼ mile S of Wythburn. Its summit has a height of 720 feet above sea-level; is lower than any mountain-pass between Black-Combe and the boundary of Durham; and has an ancient cairn, said to have been formed in 945, by the Anglo-Saxon king Edmund, to commemorate the defeat and death of Dunmail, the last king of Cumbria. ...
The sides of the pass are flanked by Steel-Fell and Seat-Sandal; and the southern descent of it commands a sudden and very grand view over the vale of Grasmere.
Dunmail Raise is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dunmail Raise itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dunmail Raise in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25905
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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