Ennerdale, Cumberland

Description
Ennerdale, a village, a township, a vale, and a lake in Cumberland. The township and the village of Ennerdale Bridge are in St Bees parish, situated on the river Ehen, 1 1/2 mile W of Ennerdale Lake, 3 miles from Rowrah railway station, 3 from Frizington, and 8 from Whitehaven. There is a post office at Ennerdale Bridge, under Frizington ; money order and telegraph office, Frizington. Kinniside is attached to Ennerdale and forms with it a joint township. Acreage, 22,407 ; population, 519. The surface is largely moorish and mountainous. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle ; net value, £66 with residence. The church was built in 1857 on the site of the old one, and the churchyard contains many monuments; but, at the date of the scene of Wordsworth's pastoral of " The Brothers "-that scene being laid here- The parish chapel stood alone, Girt round with a bare ring of mossy wall."And" in the churchyard Was neither epitaph nor monument, Tombstone nor name-only the turf they trod, And a few natural graves."