Cumbrian places, in alphabetical order

Click on a link in the Cumbrian places list to be taken to the relevant article. 

 

Aglionby, potatoes

Appleby, Westmorland

• Appleby Jail and also here

Aughtertree, Cumberland

Bampton

Blencowe

Bolton, Lancashire

Bowness on Solway, Cumberland

Brampton, Cumberland

Burton and Holm, Westmorland

Caldbeck, Cumberland

Cargo – and cholera

Carlisle, Cumberland

• Annetwell Street
• Botchergate
• Botcherby
• Caldewgate
• Irishgate
• Rickergate
• Scotch Street and here
• The Sorceries and the Bitts
• The River Eden and River Caldew
• The old canal
• Lodging houses – and disease

Crosthwaite, Cumberland and here

Dacre, Westmorland

Dalston, Cumberland

• Death statistics

Derwentwater, Cumberland

Drumburgh, Cumberland (Westfield House, Kirkland House)

Fellside, Caldbeck, Cumberland

Haltcliff, Caldbeck

Hesket New Market,

Hutton Roof, Cumberland (Stuart Hill/Stewart Hill, Heggle Head/Hegglehead)

Hutton Sceugh, Cumberland

Intack, Cumberland

Kendal, Westmorland

• Death statistics
• 19th century crimes

Kentmere

Kingstown, Cumberland, riots and affray and disease

Meaburn, Westmorland

• http://crimesofthecenturies.com/index.php/2019/07/14/robert-lowther-the-tyrant-of-barbados/Robert Lowther

Maryport, Cumberland

• Loss of the SS West Cumberland,
• the Senhouse family
• Smallpox

Ormathwaite, Cumberland

Penrith

• Christmas 1853
• Little Dockray (Redmayne House)
• Brunswick Square (First World War)

Port Carlisle, Cumberland

• Port Carlisle, a history built on hope
• Britain at Low Tide to cover
• the brig Robert Burns
• The Dandy
• Haaf net fishing
• the Solway Viaduct

Shap, Westmorland

• court case

Silloth, Cumberland

Troutbeck

Upperby – and disease

Whitehaven, Cumberland

• the American invasion
• Theatre Royal
• Wellington Pit

Workington, Cumberland

Yanwath, Westmorland

• William Jackson’s will,
• the Yanwath railway explosion