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
• Bonfire Night 1855

Aughtertree, Cumberland

Bampton

Bewcastle

Black Syke, Calthwaite

Blencowe

Bothel

Bowness on Solway, Cumberland

• funeral bidders
• the Solway Artillery Range

Bowness on Windermere

• Frozen

Brampton, Cumberland

Burton and Holm, Westmorland

Caldbeck, Cumberland

Cargo – and cholera

Carlisle, Cumberland

• Annetwell Street
• Botchergate
• Botcherby
• Caldewgate
• Cathedral
• Carlisle Central School
• Irishgate
• Paradise Court
• Rickergate
• Scotch Street and here
• The Sorceries and the Bitts
• The River Eden and River Caldew
• The old canal
• Lodging houses – and disease
• Garlands Hospital,
• cholera

Cotehill (aka Coathill)

Crosthwaite, Cumberland and here

Culgaith

Dacre, Westmorland

Dalston, Cumberland

• Death statistics

Dearham

• The Dearham riot
• disrupted weddings

Derwentwater, Cumberland

Drumburgh, Cumberland (Westfield House, Kirkland House)

Drumburgh Castle

Fellside, Caldbeck, Cumberland

Haltcliff, Caldbeck

Hesket New Market,

High Hesket

Hutton John estate

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

Hutton Sceugh, Cumberland

Intack, Cumberland

Irthington

• wedding custom
• the vicar

Kendal, Westmorland

• Death statistics
• Grain merchants and dealers
• 19th century crimes

Kentmere

Kingstown, Cumberland, riots and affray and disease

Kirkby Stephen

• Bonfire Night 1855

Kirby Thore

• Frozen fish

Lamplugh wedding customs

Longburn, Cumberland

Mardale Green

Meaburn, Westmorland

• Robert Lowther, tyrant of Barbados

Maryport, Cumberland

• Bicycle mania
• Loss of the SS West Cumberland,
• the Senhouse family
• Smallpox
• cholera

Newbiggin Hall, Westmorland.

• and here
• and here
• and here

Nichol Forest, Cumberland

Ormathwaite, Cumberland

Penrith

• Christmas 1853
• Little Dockray (Redmayne House)
• Little Dockray (General Wolfe)
• Brunswick Square (First World War)
• Bonfire Night 1855
• Board of Health, water closet row
• King Street history (no 14)
• near riot at a wedding
• public houses: General Wolfe again. Ship; Blue Bell; Bell & Bullock (also in King St post)
• the brothel that wasn’t

Port Carlisle, Cumberland

• Port Carlisle, a history built on hope
• Britain at Low Tide TV programme
• the brig Robert Burns
• The Dandy
• Haaf net fishing
• the Solway Viaduct
• Customs and revenue

Shap, Westmorland

• court case

Staffield, 1856 murder

Temple Sowerby

• Mary Walker on the parish
• The Tolerator
• water scheme

Silloth, Cumberland

• kindness in Silloth

Troutbeck

Upperby – and disease

Whitehaven, Cumberland

• the American invasion
• sports day 1869
• Theatre Royal
• Wellington Pit

Workington

• SS West Cumberland,
• Whisky galore
• cholera

Yanwath, Westmorland

• William Jackson’s 1850 will,
• William Jackson II and Emma Pears
• the Yanwath railway explosion
• lack of water/sewerage problem