EGREMONT, market town, urban district, Whitehaven par liamentary division, Cumberland, England, 5 m. S.E. of White haven on the L.M.S. railway. Pop. (1931) 6,015. It is pleasantly situated in the valley of the Ehen. Ruins of a castle command the town. It was founded c. 1120 by William de Meschines; it is moated, and retains a Norman doorway and some of the original masonry, as well as fragments of later date. In the church of St. Mary, modern reconstruction embodies some of the Norman features of the old church. Iron ore and limestone are raised in the neighbourhood. Henry I. gave the barony of Coupland to William de Meschines, who erected a castle at Egremont around which the town grew. The barony passed to the families of Lucy and Multon, and finally to the Percys, earls of Northumberland, from whom are descended the present lords of the manor of Egre mont. In a charter in the reign of King John, the town is called a borough. The borough was represented by two members in the parliament of I295, but in the following year was disfranchised. In 1267 Henry III. granted a market every Wednesday and a fair every year on the eve, day and morrow of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. There was also another weekly market on Satur day. The market rights were purchased from Lord Leconfield in 1885, and the market on Saturday is still held. Richard de Lucy's charter shows that dyeing, weaving and fulling were carried on in the town in his time.