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Salkeld (Great) in Cumberland County England History and GeographySALKELD (GREAT), a parish in LEATH ward, county of CUMBERLAND, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Kirk-Oswald, containing 403 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, held with the archdeaconry of Carlisle, in the diocese of Carlisle, rated in the king's books at £22. 10. 10., and endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert: the tower, which appears to have contained four rooms above each other, was formerly resorted to as a place of security; under it is a dungeon. There are places of worship for Presbyterians and Primitive Methodists. The parish is intersected by the river Eden, which is crossed by a bridge of singular construction, having elliptical, semicircular, and pointed arches; it was partly built with the materials of an old bridge taken down about fifty years ago: the remains of a pier belonging to a still more ancient structure, demolished by a great flood in 1360, are still visible in the stream of the Eden. A school-house, erected by subscription in 1686, is endowed with about £3 per annum. In the neighbourhood are vestiges of an ancient encampment, the ramparts of which are twelve feet high; and on the common is a chalybeate spring. Among the several eminent natives of this parish were, Dr. George Benson, a nonconformist divine and biblical critic, born in 1699; the late Lord Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench; and Rowland Wetheral, the celebrated mathematician and astronomer, born in the middle of the last century. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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