Cartmel Fell, Lancashire

Historical Description

Cartmel Fell, a township and a parish, somewhat alpine in character, formed from that of Cartmel, in Lancashire, on the river Winster, touching also Windermere Lake on the north-west, 8 miles from Cark-in-Cartmel station on the Furness railway, 6½ from Grange station on the same line, and 6½ NNE of Cartmel village. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Newton-in-Cartmel. Acreage, 4982; population of the civil parish, 287; of the ecclesiastical, 332. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Carlisle; value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Carlisle. The church, which is a pre-Reformation building, is very quaint and antiquated in character; in fact, quite unique. There is a Friends' meeting-house at " The Height" (which is very seldom open for worship).

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Cartmel Fell from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cartmel-Fell)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Cartmel Fell 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)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News