Description
Crosscrake, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Heversham parish, Westmorland, adjacent to the Kendal Canal, the river Ken, and the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 1 1/2 mile SSW of Oxenholme railway station, and 3 1/4 miles S of Kendal. Post town, Stainton, under Milnthorpe; population, 746. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £274 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Heversham.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
