BRANTHWAITE, a township in the parish of DEAN, ALLERDALE ward above Derwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 6 miles (S. W.) from Cockermouth, containing 355 inhabitants. There is a meeting-house for Methodists. Several years ago, a considerable quantity of a ferruginous kind of limestone, called catscalp, was obtained here, and sent to the iron-works at Clifton and Seaton, but this branch of trade has ceased. There are quarries of white, freestone, a woollen-manufactory, a paper-mill, and two corn-mills, in the township.