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Mungrisdale

The village, still predominately a farming community, is quite popular with tourists, no doubt for its idyllic position overlooked by the imposing fells of Blencathra, Bowscale and Carrock and complemented by the  Caldew and Glenderamakin becks.

The name of the village comes from Mungo, the name by which St Kentigern was known by those close to him, and the village church, not surprisingly, is dedicated to him. Though St Kentigern’s Church is believed to have been established here as early as AD 552, the present building dates from 1756 and contains a fine example of a 17th-century triple-decker pulpit. A memorial on the church wall reveals an intriguing connection with Wordsworth. The tablet commemorates Raisley Calvert whose son, also called Raisley, was ‘nursed by Wordsworth’. The younger Raisley was a sculptor and friend of the poet, but fell ill of consumption (tuberculosis). Wordsworth spent many hours by his bedside in Penrith hospital but Raisley passed away in 1795, leaving in his will the huge sum of £900 to his friend. The bequest was timely and enabled the poet to complete, with his friend Coleridge, the seminal poems that were published in 1798 as the Lyrical Ballads.