Yanwath is a village in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, 1 mile south of Penrith.

[2] Half a mile north-west of the village, Yanwath Hall is a fortified tower house.

Next morning English recruits came from Kendal and Shap and between them looted and gutted the Irish settlement at Plumpton.

On the night of 26 February that year a goods train, running late from Tebay, derailed.

The explosion blew out windows, felled telegraph wires, and caused debris to rain down on Yanwath.