Description
Grinsdale, a village, a township, and a parish in Cumberland. The village stands on the river Eden, 1 mile from Kirk-Andrews-upon-Eden station on the North British railway, and 2 3/4 miles NW of Carlisle. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Carlisle. Acreage of township, 838; population, 103. The manor formerly belonged to the family of De Grinsdale. The traces of the Roman wall here are now very slight. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £131. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale, who is lord of the manor. The church was rebuilt in 1739, and is a small plain building.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
