Kirk Andrews upon Eden, Cumberland

Historical Description

Kirk Andrews-upon-Eden, a village and a parish in Cumberland. The village stands on the Roman wall and on the Carlisle and Silloth railway, 3½ miles WNW of Carlisle, and has a station on the railway. The churchyard here was probably the site of a mill-castle on the Roman wall, and a garden in the village contains a Roman altar, brought from Kirksteads, about a mile S. The vallnm of the wall is slightly traceable in the neighbourhood. The parish contains also the hamlet of Hosket Hill, and its post town is Carlisle; money order and telegraph office, Burgh-by-Sands (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1011; population of the civil parish, 136; of the ecclesiastical, 388. The manor belongs to the Earl of Lons-dale. The living is a rectory, united with that of Beaumont, in the diocese of Carlisle; joint net value, £179 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church has disappeared, and the church of Beaumont serves for the united parishes.

Administration

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kirk Andrews upon Eden from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kirk-Andrews-upon-Eden (St. Andrew))

Land and Property

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Visitations Heraldic

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