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Millom in Cumberland County England History and GeographyMILLOM, a parish (formerly a market town) in ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, comprising the chapelries of Thwaits and Ulpha, and the townships of Birker with Austhwaite, Chapel-Sucken, Lower Millom, and Upper Millom, and containing 1815 inhabitants, of which number, 460 are in the township of Lower Millom, and 320 in that of Upper Millom, 12 miles (S. E. by S.) from Ravenglass. This parish is bounded on the west and south by the Irish sea, and on the east by the river Duddon, which forms a bay famous for cockles and muscles, and abounding with salmon and sand-eels. The mineral productions are limestone, slate, and iron and copper ore; the limestone alone is found in quantities sufficient to be worked with advantage. A market and a fair were granted in the reign of Henry III., but have been long disused. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £8. 5. 8., endowed with £610 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the King, as Duke of Lancaster. The church, which is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is an ancient structure, and contains a mural tablet, with effigies to the memory of the Huddlestone family. A school was endowed by this family with £200, which has long been lost, but the children of the parish are entitled to instruction in a grammar school at Whicham, and there are charity schools at Millom, with small endowments from a benefaction by William Atkinson, in 1809. Here are the remains of Millom castle, the ancient seat of the Lords of Millom. In Upper Millom are several springs, called Holy wells, impregnated with a purgative salt. In 1824, a curious battle-axe and other relics were found at Lowscales. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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