Allonby, Cumberland
Historical Description
Allonby, a village, a chapelry, and a township in the parish of Bromfield, Cumberland. The village stands on a wide open bay of its own name, opposite the Robin Rigg light-vessel, is 3½ miles N of Bull Gill railway station, and 5 NNE of Maryport, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. It carries on a fishing trade, and is a fashionable summer resort for sea-bathing. It was the birthplace of the distinguished hydrographer, Huddart, who died in 1816. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £160. Patron, the Vicar of Bromfield. There is a church, a Congregational chapel, and Friends' meeting-house in the village. With the township of West Newton it forms the civil parish of West Newton and Allonby, comprising 1339 acres; population, 497.
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 | Bromfield | |
| Poor Law union | Wigton | |
| Ward | Allerdale below Derwent |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The registers date from the year 1758, but are defective up to 1776.
Churches
Church of England
Christ Church (parish church)
Christ Church, erected as a chapel-of-ease to Bromfield, but made the church of a separate ecclesiastical parish, Feb. 16, 1906, was rebuilt in 1845 upon the site of a former chapel, erected in 1741, by Dr. Tomlinson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his relatives, and is a plain cruciform edifice of stone, with a west porch and western turret containing one bell. In the church is a marble monument with medallion to Capt. Joseph Huddart F.R.S. formerly of the Hon. East India Co. Service, who died in 1816. In 1885 the interior was renovated and greatly improved, and an organ erected at a total cost of £510; the stained east window was erected by the patron in 1898 to the memory of his wife. A new organ was provided in 1899, at a cost of £170. The church affords 250 sittings, of which 40 are free.
Directories & Gazetteers
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Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
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- 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)