Gosforth is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Lake District, in the Borough of Copeland in Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it is situated on the A595 road between Whitehaven and Barrow-in-Furness. It had a population of 1,230 at the 2001 Census. At the 2011 census Gosforth was grouped with Ponsonby and Wasdale giving a total population of 1,396.
Gosforth Parish Church
The Lion and the Lamb pub at the junction.
The Gosforth Cross beside St Mary's Church, Gosforth. It is over fourteen feet high.
The two hogsback tomb markers now in the parish church, thought to be stylised "houses of the dead" with tiled roofs.
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and the Cumbrian mountains; and for its literary associations with Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, and the Lake Poets.
The Skiddaw massif, town of Keswick and Derwent Water seen from Walla Crag
The A591 road as it passes through the countryside between Ambleside and Grasmere
A panorama from the summit of Scafell Pike, August 2007
Panorama of the Wasdale screes descending into Wastwater, the deepest lake in England.