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Nether and Upper Hesket, Cumberland

Historical Description

Hesket, Nether and Upper, or Low and High, two villages in Hesket-in-the-Forest parish, Cumberland, on the river Petteril, about 2 miles from Southwaite station on the L. & N.W.R., and 7½ SSE of Carlisle. Low Hesket has a post office under Carlisle; money order office, Southwaite; telegraph office, Armathwaite. There is a small Wesleyan chapel at Low Hesket.

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.