Great Blencow, Cumberland
Historical Description
Blencow, Great, a township in Dacre parish, Cumberland, 4½ miles WNW of Penrith. It has a station on the Cockermouth railway, and a post office under Penrith, both of the name of Blencow; money order and telegraph office, Greystoke. There is a free grammar school founded in 1576 by Thomas Burbank.
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 | Dacre | |
Poor Law union | Penrith | |
Ward | Leath |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Blencow from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blencow, Great)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Blencow 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)