a parliamentary borough and market-town of England, county of Cumberland, 25 miles S.W. of Carlisle, at the confluence of the Derwent and Cocker, each of which is here crossed by a bridge. The borough had, in 1851, 7275 inhabitants, and 355 registered electors, who return two members to parliament. The town is irregularly built, but has recently been much improved. It has remains of an old castle built soon after the Conquest, and razed by the parliamentary forces in 1648; also a town-hall, free grammar-school, savings-bank, dispensary, house of correction; with manufactures of cotton, linen, and woollen goods, hats, hosiery, paper, and leather. In the neighbourhood are extensive coal mines. Wordsworth the poet was born here in 1770.