Description
Waterhead, a township in Lanercost parish, Cumberland, on the river Irthing, 6 miles NE of Brampton Junction station on the N.E.R. Acreage, 5617; population, 248. This place is the site of a large Roman station, and in 1886 a fine Roman altar was found. The Earl of Carlisle is lord of the manor.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
