Blindcrake is a small, irregularly-built village, and, with the neighbouring villages of Isel and Redmain, forms a township near the main road between Cockermouth and Aspatria, 4 miles north-east from the former place and 4 ½ south from the latter, and near the banks of the river Derwent. The village consists of the residences of a few farmers and yeomen. There is a Mission Room here in connection with the parish church, and a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1894. Sir Wilfrid Lawson bart. M.P. is lord of the manor and the chief landowner. The soil is limestone and freestone. The principal crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area of Blindcrake, Isell and Redmain is 4,229 acres; rateable value, £3,624; the population in 1891 was 292.