Nenthead, Cumberland

Historical Description

Nenthead, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Alston parish, Cumberland. The village stands on the river Nent, about a mile below its source, 1½ W of the meeting-point of Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, and 4½ miles SE of Alston station on the N.E.R. It is a considerable place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Carlisle. The parish consists chiefly of moor and mountain, and contains lead mines and smelting houses belonging to the Lords of the Admiralty, and leased by the Nenthead and Tynedale Lead and Zinc Company. Population, 1013. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £113 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Alston. The church is modern. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a working men's reading-room and circulating library, and an old market-house.

Administration

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Nenthead from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Nenthead 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)