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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 |
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