Hesket Newmarket, Cumberland
Historical Description
Hesket Newmarket, a village in Caldbeck parish, Cumberland, on the river Caldew, 7¼ miles NNW of Pendruddock, and 9 SE of Wigton station on the Maryport and Carlisle railway. It has a post office under Wigton; money order office, Caldbeck; telegraph office, Wigton. It stands amid picturesque and romantic scenery, with rocks containing much lead ore and some copper, molybdena, and manganese. A market was formerly held, but has been discontinued. Fairs for cattle are held on the first Friday in May and every alternate Friday till Whitsuntide, also on the first Thursday in Aug. and Oct. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a meeting-house for the Society of Friends.
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 | Caldbeck | |
| Poor Law union | Wigton | |
| Ward | Allerdale below Derwent |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hesket Newmarket from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hesket-Newmarket)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hesket Newmarket 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)