Grange in Borrowdale
| Grange | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
 Grange taken from Grange Crags | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY252174 |
| Location: | 54°32’49"N, 3°9’23"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Keswick |
| Postcode: | CA12 |
| Dialling code: | 017687 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Copeland |
Grange in Borrowdale, otherwise known simply as Grange, is a village in Cumberland, standing within Borrowdale the Lake District. It is to be found just off the B5289 road to the south of Derwent Water and four miles south of Keswick.
The village is overlooked by Grange Fell and Castle Crag, which flank either side of the narrow section of Borrowdale in which it sits. Its origins can be traced to the Middle Ages, when the monks of Furness Abbey built a monastic grange on the site, hence the name. The double-arched bridge that links the village to the B5289 across the River Derwent was built in 1675. Holy Trinity Church was built in the village in 1861.
The novelist Hugh Walpole owned Brackenburn, a large house about a mile to the north of Grange, and lived there from 1924 until his death in 1941.
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