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Holme-Cultram in Cumberland County England History and GeographyHOLME-CULTRAM, a parish in ALLERDALE ward below Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 6½ miles (W.N.W.) from Wigton, comprising Abbey Quarter, East Waver Quarter, Low Quarter, and St. Cuthbert's Quarter, and containing 2772 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Newton-Arlosh, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., endowed with £600 private benefaction, and £1100 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford. The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is principally in the early style of English architecture, and was mostly rebuilt in 1606, after the greater part of the old edifice had been destroyed by fire: it was once the conventual church of an abbey of Cistercian monks, founded in 1150, by Prince Henry of Scotland, and so richly endowed, that at the dissolution its revenue was estimated at £535. 3. 7.; in the church-yard are various remains of the conventual buildings. The abbots were summoned to several parliaments by Edward I. and II., and the last abbot was instituted to the rectory. The Society of Friends have a meeting-house at Beck-foot, erected in 1745. The parish is bounded on the west by the Irish sea, and on the north by the ?stuaries of the Wampool and the Waver, the latter river passing on the eastern side of the village, where it is crossed by a substantial bridge of three arches, erected in 1770, at the expense of the parishioners. Freestone is obtained here. At Newton-Arlosh are the ruins of an ancient chapel, said to have been once the parochial church. Walsey castle, formerly a very strong fort, has dwindled into a small heap of ruins. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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