Skinburness, Cumberland
Historical Description
Skinburness, a village in Holme Cultram parish, Cumberland, on the coast of the Solway Frith, 2 miles NNE of Silloth railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Silloth. It was anciently an important place, destroyed by an irruption of the sea about the beginning of the 14th century, and is now a sea-bathing resort and a place of herring-fishery.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 | Holme Cultram | |
| 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 Skinburness from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Skinburness)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Skinburness 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)