In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ravenglass like this:
RAVENGLASS, a sea-port village in Muncaster parish, Cumberland; at the head of the joint estuary of the rivers Irt, Mite, and Esk, adjacent to the Whitehaven and Furness railway, 4½ miles N by W of Bootle. It is a sub-port to Whitehaven; carries on ship-building, a coasting-trade and an oyster fishery; and has a station on the railway, a post-office‡ under Whitehaven, a hotel, an endowed school, a weekly market on Wednesday, and fairs on 8 June and 5 Aug. Pop., about 450.
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Ravenglass through time
Ravenglass is now part of Copeland district. Click here for graphs and data of how Copeland has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ravenglass itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ravenglass, in Copeland and Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25935
Date accessed: 18th May 2024
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