CANNONBY (CROSS), a parish in ALLERDALE
ward below Derwent, county of CUMBERLAND, comprising
the market-town and chapelry of Maryport, and
the.townships of Birkby, Cross, Cannonby, and Crosby,
and containing 3870 inhabitants, of which number, 60
are in the township of Cross-Cannonby, C2 miles (N. E.
by E.) from Maryport. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in. the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, endowed
with £ 1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. The church, dedicated
to St. John, is of early Norman architecture. This
parish lies on the shore of the Solway Frith, and .is
bounded on the south by the river Ellen: it contains
coal and freestone, and in a quarry of the latter, implements
supposed to be Roman were found some years
ago^ from, which it is thought that the stone used in
erecting the Roman station at Ellenborough was obtained
here.