Egremont- an town and parish, the Church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a neat edifice, an ancient structure consisting of a nave, chancel and square low tower, containing two bells. The interior is well pewed, and has a handsome appearance; the outer walls are plastered, and the whole of the church, except the eastern end, is greatly disfigured by tasteless modern alterations. "The chancel, a mere recess with a rounded east end, is an unsightly projection of modern date. The font is stone, and of an octagonal figure: it bears marks of antiquity, but is painted."

The church was given by William de Meschines to the priory of St. Bees, which was a cell to St. Mary's Abbey, in York, and it still continues to pay a pension to the church of St. Bees. The district is hilly, and the coast generally steep and rocky. Coal, limestone, and freestone are obtained, with some lead; and iron has been found in great abundance in the neighbourhood. On the promontory called St. Bees Head, three miles to the south of Whitehaven, is a lighthouse, with a fixed light at an elevation of 333 feet, visible at a distance of twenty-three miles. It was erected in 1822, a former one, erected in 1717, having been burnt down. Large numbers of seafowl haunt the rocky coast. The village is said to owe its origin to a nunnery, founded here in the 7th century by St. Begs, an Irish princess, whom some identify with St. Bridget. A few interesting fragments of that earlier foundation are preserved in the present church and churchyard.

Egremont is an ancient market town, in the ward of Allerdale-above-Derwent in Co. Cumberland, consisting principally of one wide street, pleasantly seated on the west bank of the river Ehen, over which there is a bridge of two arches, 6 miles southeast of Whitehaven, and about three miles west of the Irish sea. At the Conquest, Ralph de Meschines, to whom William had granted the whole county of Cumberland, gave the barony of Egremont, then called Copeland, to his brother, William de Meschines, who erected the castle, the ruins of which still occupy a hill to the N.W. of the town. A new bridge has been built over the river Echen. The town, which is situated within 3 miles of the Irish Sea, was anciently a borough, and returned members to parliament in the 23rd of Edward I., but was on its own petition disfranchised in the 24th of the same reign. It was anciently a borough, and the principal town in the barony of Copeland or Egremont, but was disfranchised, on the petition of the burgesses, to avoid the expense of representation in Parliament. At the Dissolution its annual revenue was about £150. Nearly all traces of its domestic buildings have disappeared; but the nave of its church has been used as the parish church since 1611.

Ennerdale, a township, forms a joint chapelry with Kenneyside, and has a small village on the banks of the river Ehen, one mile west of the lake which bears the name of the vale, and eight miles S.S.E. of Whitehaven. The Irish named Lough Eaneth, (lacus volucrum) from the fowls that bred there in the islands, and that the name for the dale was Eaner, or, Ar-ean, from which the Saxons called it Enerdale. The Chapel, which is a small edifice, is distant about six miles from the parish church off St. Bees. The curacy was certified to the governors of queen Anne's bounty at £4 13s. 4d. which was paid by the impropriator, and was returned in 1835 as of the average value of £84.