an ancient town of the county of Cumberland in England, seated under a hill called Penrith-Fell, near the rivers Eamont and Lowther. It is a great thoroughfare for travellers; but has little other trade except tanning, and a small manufacture of checks. Formerly it had a castle, but it is now in ruins. In the church-yard is a monument of great antiquity, consisting of two stone-pillars 11 feet 6 inches high, and five in circumference in the lower part, which is rounded; the upper is square, and tapers to a point; in the square part is some fret-work, and the relievo of a crofs; and on the interior side of one is the faint representation of some animal. Both these stones are mortised at their lower Penryn lower part into a round one: they are about 15 feet asunder, and the space between them is inclosed on each side with two very large but thin semicircular stones; so that there is left between pillar and pillar a walk of two feet in breadth. Two of these lesser stones are plain, the others have certain figures, at present scarce intelligible. Not far from these pillar's is another called the giant's thumb, five feet eight inches high, with an expanded head, perforated on both sides; from the middle the stone rises again into a lesser head, rounded at top; but no part has a tendency to the figure of a cross, being in no part mutilated. W. Long. 3° 16'. N. Lat. 54° 35'.