Site-Search
Coming Soon
|
Site-Search |
|
Page and site |
|
Cleator in Cumberland County England History and GeographyCLEATOR, a parish in ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 2¼ miles (N.) from Egremont, containing 818 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant. T. R. G. Braddyll, Esq. was patron in 1823. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard. The manor-house is stated to have been burnt about 1315, by a party of Scots under the command of James Douglas. The parish contains coal, lime-stone, and iron-ore, a great quantity of lime being burnt and sent into Scotland: here are also two forges for the manufacture of spades and other edged tools, besides an extensive establishment for spinning hemp and tow, making sewing-thread, &c. The mine of iron-ore at Crowgarth is of a superior description; it is twelve fathoms below the surface, and the vein of solid ore is from twenty-four to twenty-five feet in thickness: it was not much worked until 1784, but about 1790 and a few years afterwards, twenty thousand tons of ore were annually shipped from Whitehaven to Hull and the Carron works, though the produce of late has greatly declined. The village is large, containing a few good houses, besides a number of cottages occupied by the workmen employed in the different manufactories: the inhabitants claim a right of common on the adjacent mountain of Dent. A Roman causeway formerly passed through the parish, from Egremont to Papcastle, near Cockermouth, but few traces of it are at present apparent. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
Readers of this page were also interested in: Buckinghamshire in Buckingham County England History and Geography BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, an inland county, bounded on the north and north-west by the county of Northampton, on the east and north-east by the counties of Hertford and Bedford, on the south-east by the county of Middlesex, on the south-west by the county of Berks, and on the west by the county of Oxford: it extends from 51' 25´ to 52' 11´ (N. lat.), and from 30´ to 1' 9´ (W. lon Kirkby-Thore in Westmorland County England History and Geography KIRKBY-THORE, a parish in EAST ward, county of WESTMORLAND, comprising the chapelries of Milburn with Milburn-Grange, and Temple-Sowerby, and the township of Kirkby-Thore, and containing 1051 inhabitants, of which number, 377 are in the township of Kirkby-Thore, 5¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Appleby Rothley in Leicester County England History and Geography ROTHLEY, a parish comprising the chapelries of Keyham, Wartnaby, and Wycomb with Chadwell, in the eastern, and the chapelry of Mountsorrel, and the extra-parochial liberty of Rothley-Temple, in the western, division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 1½ mile (S. by E.) from Mountsorrel, and containing 1349 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, rated in the king's books at £11. 0 Solihull in Warwick County England History and Geography SOLIHULL, a market town and parish in the Solihull division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 13 miles (N.W.) from Warwick, and 105 (N.W.) from London, containing 2817 inhabitants Tarvin in Cheshire County England History and Geography Walton le Dale in Lancaster County England History and Geography WALTON le DALE, a chapelry in the parish and lower division of the hundred of BLACKBURN, county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (S.E.) from Preston, containing, according to the last census, 5740 inhabitants, since which period the number has increased to about 7000 |
