Blencarn, Cumberland
Historical Description
Blencarn, a township in Kirkland parish, Cumberland, 8½ miles SE of Kirkoswald. This township is 2 miles from Newbiggin station on the M.R., and has a mineral spring and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Blencarn are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)