Waverton, Cumberland
Historical Description
Waverton, a village and a township in Wigton parish, Cumberland, on the river Waver, 2½ miles W by S of Wigton station on the Maryport and Carlisle railway. There is a post office under Wigton; money order and telegraph office, Wigton. The township includes the hamlet of Lesson Hall. Acreage, 4169; population, 439. Lord Leconfield is lord of the manor. There is a small chapel of ease in the Early English style erected in 1865.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cumberland | |
Civil parish | Wigton | |
Poor Law union | Wigton | |
Ward | Cumberland |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Waverton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Waverton 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)