Silecroft, Cumberland
Historical Description
Silecroft, a village in Wickham parish, Cumberland, with a station on the Furness railway, 9¼ miles S by E of Ravenglass. It has a post and money order office (S.O.); telegraph office at the railway station.
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 Silecroft 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)