Kingwater

{{short description|Civil parish in Cumbria, England}}

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File:Clockey Mill.jpg 18th-century former Corn Mill in the parish]]

Kingwater is a civil parish in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England. At the 2011 census it had a population of 170.{{cite web|title=Area: Kingwater (Parish)|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125259&c=kingwater&d=16&e=62&g=6411657&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1492351480881&enc=1|website=Neighbourhood Statistics: Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics|publisher=Office for National Statistics|accessdate=16 April 2017}}

The parish is bordered to the north west by Askerton, to the north by Tarset, to the north east by Henshaw, to the south east by Thirlwall (these three being in Northumberland), to the south by Waterhead and Burtholme and to the south west by Walton.{{cite web|title=Information on: Kingwater (Parish)|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaMetadata.do?a=7&b=11125259&c=kingwater&d=16&e=62&g=6411657&i=1001x1003x1032x1004x1011&m=0&r=1&s=1492351486850&enc=1&areaId=11125259|website=Neighbourhood Statistics|publisher=Office of National Statistics|accessdate=16 April 2017}}

There is a parish council, the lowest tier of local government.{{cite web|title=Kingwater Parish Council in Cumbria|url=http://kingwaterpc.btck.co.uk/|publisher=Kingwater Parish Council|accessdate=16 April 2017}}{{cite web|title=Kingwater Parish Council|url=http://councilportal.cumbria.gov.uk/mgParishCouncilDetails.aspx?ID=482|publisher=Cumbria County Council|accessdate=16 April 2017}}

The parish is described by its parish council as having "several farms, dwellings and small hamlets" but "no school, no pub, no church or village hall".

In 1874 Kingwater was one of four townships within the parish of Lanercost.{{Genuki|county=CUL|Lanercost}} Retrieved 16 April 2017