WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

emecclesiastical councils held in the brace Chapter-House of old St. Paul's, the Chapel of St. Catherine, and West Abbey, and include those of minster Lanfranc, Anselm, etc. W.), inland county, N. England; bounded n. and n.w. by Cumber land, w. by Lancs., s. by Lanes., =. by Yorkshire and Durham; area of administrative county, 789 sq. miles. n W. is famous Lake District, with Lakes Ulleswater and Winder mere on the Cumber land and Lancashire borders respectively, and Grasmere, Rydal Water, and others entirely within the county. W. produces coal, fireclay, lead, slate, gypsum. Chief crops, oats, barley, wheat; cattle and sheep raised; manufactures woolens. Has ruins of several castles and monasteries. Pop. (1921) 65,740.