Garrigill, Cumberland

Historical Description

Garrigill, a chapelry in Alston parish, Cumberland, in the diocese of Newcastle, under Middlefell and Hartsidefell, near the sources of the South Tyne, and near the boundaries with Northumberland, Durham, and Westmorland, 4 miles SE of Alston town and railway station. It has a post office under Hexham; money order and telegraph office, Alston. Population of the ecclesiastical parish of Alston Moor, with Garrigill, 2371. The surface, to a large extent, is upland and moorish. Extensive lead mines are here, and copper mines were formerly worked. The living is a curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Alston, in the diocese of Newcastle; it is in the gift of the Admiralty; joint net yearly value, £130 with residence. The church has been recently restored, and there are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. There is also a subscription school and a reading-room, the ground for which was given by the governors of Greenwich Hospital.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Garrigill from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Garrigill 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)