Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland

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Under a great variety of divisions many curious facts connected with the old-time churches of the northern counties might be noted that cannot here be touched upon. Some of them...

"The tombstone is unhewn millstone grit, covered with a limestone slab, whereon a heraldic shield was once traceable, supposed to indicate the ownership of the Whartons. Traditi...

Boon services of all kinds were common in all the manors along what is known as the eastern fell side--the base of Cross Fell, and north and south thereof. Before they were enfr...

"Being lately in Lancashire I received there--as a justice of the peace of that county--an information against one Thomas Lancaster, late of Threlkeld in Cumberland, who, it is...

Before the privilege was abolished by Parliament in the reign of James the First, there were several places in the two counties at which sanctuary could be obtained. One was at...

There is a tradition that an attempt was made time after time to build a church in what is known as Jackson's Park, Arlecdon, but as often as begun in the day it was destroyed i...

"The Luck of Levens" is of a kind quite different from the three already mentioned. Levens Hall has attached to it one of the oldest deer parks in England, and within its border...

That picture is a pleasant one; the life in the home was less picturesque. Churches and farm houses (especially the bedrooms) had next to no ventilation. The sanitary--or rather...

Not less interesting than the foregoing announcement is the report of the event. There was never much attempt at descriptions, either of races or cock-fights, though one would l...

Even taxes did not, it is to be feared, prevent some of the Cumbrians occasionally throwing in their lot with, or assisting, the vagabonds who were the cause of all the trouble....

There was a very noteworthy Council at Watermillock, called the Head Jurie, and Mr. W. Hodgson, a former schoolmaster in the parish, did good service some years ago by transcrib...

"The chapel is a low, mean building, and stands in the parish of Grassmere. The inhabitants (who are land owners), as well as those in the parish of Winandermere, as those in th...

"Mr. Andrews has the true art of narration, and contrives to give us the results of his learning with considerable freshness of style, whilst his subjects are always interesting...