Cumbrian places, in alphabetical order

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Aglionby, potatoes

Ainstable

• fishing rights

Appleby, Westmorland

• Appleby Jail and also here
• Bonfire Night 1855

Aughtertree, Cumberland

Bampton

Bewcastle

Black Syke, Calthwaite

Blencowe

Bolton Wood Lane

Bothel

Bowness on Solway, Cumberland

• funeral bidders
• gravestones
• the Solway Artillery Range
• the dangers of the Solway

Bowness on Windermere

• Frozen

Brampton, Cumberland

Brough-under Stainmore

Burton and Holm, Westmorland

Caldbeck, Cumberland

Calthwaite

• Sceugh Dyke
• Sceugh Head
• Merry Thought PoW camp

Cargo – and cholera

Carlisle, Cumberland

• Annetwell Street
• Botchergate
• Botcherby
• Caldewgate
• Cathedral and here
• Carlisle Central School
• Cummersdale Print Works
• Holy Trinity Church
• Irishgate
• Paradise Court
• Rickergate
• Scotch Street and here
• The Sorceries and the Bitts, and here
• The River Eden and River Caldew
• The Carlisle Canal
• The canal opening day celebrations
• Lodging houses – and disease
• Garlands Hospital,
• cholera
• flooding 1822
• Jacobite occupation 1745
• the city in 1810
• Christmas 1854
• starvation 1854
• St Cuthbert’s Church
• the Shaddongate riot

Carleton Hall, Penrith

Cotehill (aka Coathill)

Crosthwaite, Cumberland and here

Culgaith

Dacre, Westmorland

Dalton in Furness (ex-Lancashire, now Cumbria)

Dalston, Cumberland

• Death statistics
• parish registers

Dearham

• The Dearham riot
• disrupted weddings

Derwentwater, Cumberland

Drumburgh, Cumberland (Westfield House, Kirkland House)

Drumburgh Castle

Fellside, Caldbeck, Cumberland

Gosforth

Great Salkeld

Haltcliff, Caldbeck

Hesket-in-the Forest

• Local names in will of Thomas Ollivant

Hesket New Market,

High Hesket

• and here

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
• Kendal town clock
• coronation day 1838

Kentmere

Keswick

• Samuel Ladyman’s fountains

Kingstown, Cumberland, riots and affray and disease

Kirkbampton

Kirkby Stephen

• Bonfire Night 1855

Kirby Thore

• Frozen fish

Kirkoswald

• Parish registers
• Tod(d) Bank,

Lamplugh wedding customs

Longburn, Cumberland

Mardale Green

Martindale

Maryport, Cumberland

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

Matterdale

• Church

Meaburn, Westmorland

• Robert Lowther, tyrant of Barbados

Netherwasdale

• the Strands Inn, part 1
• and part 2

Newbiggin Hall, Westmorland.

• and here
• and here
• and here
• and finally

Nichol Forest, Cumberland

Ormathwaite, Cumberland

Orton, Westmorland

Patterdale

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) and no 11
• The Mitre, King Street
• near riot at a wedding
• public houses: General Wolfe again. Ship; Blue Bell; Bell & Bullock (also in King St post)
• and: Station Hotel, Black Lion
• the brothel that wasn’t
• Victoria Coach Works
• Victoria Road/Victoria Place
• Dockray Hall (aka the Gloucester Arms)
• the Penrith Pong of 1875 (and the current one!)

Plumpton

• Trough Foot

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
• the canal opening day
• census returns
• Solway ships in the 1800s
• Merchant Navy apprentices
• the brig Jane
• Victoria baths
• Villages by the Sea TV programme

Seathwaite

• the Seathwaite riot

Shap, Westmorland

• court case

Silloth, Cumberland

• kindness in Silloth

Staffield, 1856 murder

Stainton (near Penrith)

Temple Sowerby

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

Thursby

• war memorial
• Post Office

Troutbeck

Ulverston

• Annie Robinson, poisoner

Upperby – and disease

Wasdale – see also Netherwasdale

Watermillock

Whitehaven, Cumberland

• the American invasion
• sports day 1869
• Theatre Royal
• Wellington Pit
• 1827 storm
• the dodgy overseer

Workington

• SS West Cumberland,
• Whisky galore
• cholera
• Dr Anthony Peat – memorial obelisk

Wreay

• Wreay Hall

Yanwath, Westmorland

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