LOWSIDE-QUARTER, a township in the parish of
ST-BEES, ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of
CUMBERLAND, containing 353 inhabitants. The township
lies between the river Ehen on the east, and the
Irish sea on the west, and contains the venerable remains
of Egremont castle, built soon after the Conquest, by
William de Meschines, the first Baron of Copeland, and
still exhibiting evident traces of its ancient strength
and grandeur.