St, a parish of England, county of Cumberland, on the sea-coast, comprising the town of Whitehaven and the village of St Bees. Pop. (1851) 23,486. St Bees is a place of great antiquity. The parish church, a cruciform building with a massive tower, was once a part of the monastery of St Bega, founded about A.D. 650. The chancel is occupied by the theological college, established in 1817 by Bishop Law. The grammar-school, founded in the sixteenth century by Archbishop Grindall, has several exhibitions and fellowships both at Oxford and Cambridge. Pop. of township (1851) 971.