Port Carlisle, Cumberland
Historical Description
Port Carlisle, a small place in the N of Cumberland, on the Solway Frith, at the terminus of the Port Carlisle railway, 11½ miles WNW of Carlisle. The railway is identical with the Carlisle and Silloth railway from Carlisle to Drumburgh, a distance of fully 9 miles, and together with that railway is leased to the North British Railway Company. The place was formerly a seaport, but its trade has been transferred to Silloth. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Churches
There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1861, and seating 150 persons.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Port Carlisle 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)