ROSLEY, a township in the parish of WESTWARD,
ALLERDALE ward, below Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND,
5 miles (E. S. E.) from Wigton, containing' 302
inhabitants. A great fair for horses, cattle, sheep, cloth
&c., is held on Whit-Monday and every alternate
Monday following till All Saints' day, at which it is
computed that two thousand head of cattle, and five,
hundred horses, are exhibited for sale; forty, acres of
land on Rosley Hill were allotted for holding this fair
under the enclosure act of 1811.