24 Facts About Keswick Cumbria

Keswick Cumbria became widely known for its association with the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.

George Flom of the University of Illinois rejected that derivation on the grounds that a town in the heart of Viking-settled areas, as Keswick Cumbria was, would not have been given a Saxon name; he proposed instead that the word is of Danish or Norse origin, and means "Kell's place at the bend of the river".

In 1181 Jocelyn of Furness wrote of a new church at Crosthwaite, Keswick Cumbria, founded by Alice de Romilly, the Lady of Allerdale, a direct descendant of William II's original barons.

Keswick Cumbria was at the hub of the monastic farms in the area, and Fountains based a steward in the town, where tenants paid their rents.

Keswick Cumbria's journal was widely read, and was, in Bott's phrase, "an effective public relations job for Keswick".

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Coal gas was supplied by a gas works from 1846; the Keswick Cumbria library opened in 1849; a water works began operation in 1856; and Keswick Cumbria police station opened in 1857.

The local weekly newspaper, The Keswick Cumbria Reminder was founded in 1896, and in 2019 continues to be published every Friday.

Rice commented that to write about Keswick Cumbria without mentioning Rawnsley would be the equivalent of writing about Stratford-upon-Avon without mentioning Shakespeare, so great was Rawnsley's impact on the town.

The age profile of the Keswick Cumbria population is significantly higher than the English average.

Figures from the same census show that Keswick Cumbria has fewer than average "large employers and higher managerial occupations" and more small employers and self-employed people.

Keswick Cumbria became a Local Government District in 1853 and an urban district with three wards in 1894, reflecting its growth in the latter part of the 19th century.

Since 2010 Keswick Cumbria has been in the Copeland parliamentary constituency, having previously been part of Workington and before that Penrith and The Border.

Keswick Cumbria is in the lee of the Skiddaw group, the oldest group of rocks in the Lake District.

Climatically, Keswick Cumbria is in the North West sector of the UK, which is characterised by cool summers, mild winters, and high monthly rainfalls throughout the year.

Keswick Cumbria is the home of the Theatre by the Lake, opened in 1999.

Prominent social thinker and art critic John Ruskin, who had many associations with Keswick Cumbria, once said that the town was a place almost too beautiful to live in.

Until 1838, Keswick Cumbria had no Anglican church within the town boundaries and was part of the widespread parish of Crosthwaite.

Since 1928 Roman Catholics in Keswick Cumbria have been served by Our Lady of the Lakes and St Charles in High Hill.

The principal team plays in the Westmorland League Division One, and it has a reserve team which plays in Westmorland League Division Two, a female team which plays in the Keswick Cumbria League, juniors who compete in the under-16, under-14, under-12 and under-10 categories in the Penrith Junior Football League; there is a veteran team, which competes in the Keswick Cumbria League.

In cycling, Keswick Cumbria hosted the Keswick Cumbria Bikes Borrowdale Cross of the North West League, second round, in September 2010 for junior riders, an event that was supported by the British Cycling Federation.

Keswick Cumbria is on the A66 road linking Workington and Penrith, as well as the A591, linking the town to Windermere, Kendal and Carlisle .

The Keswick Cumbria Agricultural Show, founded in 1860, has traditionally been held on August Bank Holiday Monday at the western edge of the town on the Crossing Fields section of the open land known as the Howrahs.

Performers in Keswick Cumbria have included the Chilingirian Quartet, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Tasmin Little, the City of London Sinfonia, Red Priest and Nicolai Demidenko.

Keswick Cumbria is buried in Crosthwaite churchyard and there is a memorial to him inside the church, with an inscription written by Wordsworth.