STANWIX, a parish comprising the townships of Cargo, or Craghow, and Stainton, in CUMBERLAND ward, and the townships of Etterby, Houghton, Linstock, Rickerby, Stanwix, and Tarraby, in ESKDALE ward, county of CUMBERLAND, and containing 1592 inhabitants, of which number, 400 are in the township of Stanwix, a mile (N.) from Carlisle. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's books at £9, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Carlisle. The church,' dedicated to St. Michael, is an ancient edifice, built upon the site and out of the ruins of the Congavata of the Romans, of which station Severus' Wall formed the northern rampart, and near which many altars and inscriptions have been found. The parish is bounded on the south by the river Eden, which is crossed by a handsome stone bridge, connecting it with the city of Carlisle: the village is beautifully situated on the northern bank of that river. A soft freestone abounds in the neighbourhood.