CAMMERTON, a parish in ALLERDALE ward below
Derwent, county of CUMBERLAND, comprising the
townships of Cammerton and Seaton, and containing
706 inhabitants, of which number, 86 are in the township
of Cammerton, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Workington.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with & 600 royal
bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. The
church, rebuilt in 1794, contains an effigy in full-length,
the  feet resting on a lamb, of a person called Black
Tom of the North, whose seat here, according to tradir
tion, was Barrow castle, now in ruins. There are some
coal mines in this parish, which is bounded on the
north by Solway Frith, and on the south by the river
Derwent, whence passes a canal to the Seaton ironworks.