In the mid nineteenth century the district grew with many large houses built for Carlisle's expanding middle classes.
[citation needed] Today Stanwix includes the areas of Edentown, Whiteclosegate, St Anne's Hill and Belah.
[citation needed] Morrisons and Aldi supermarkets and a Sainsbury's Local store are located in the area as well.
[citation needed] A single bridge, the grade I listed Eden Bridge designed by Robert Smirke,[7] crosses the River Eden to connect Stanwix and other northern reaches of the district to Carlisle city centre.
[citation needed] In 2012 the "northern relief road" opened, around the north-west of Carlisle, which should ease congestion.