Warwick Bridge, Cumberland

Historical Description

Warwick Bridge, a village in Holme Eden ecclesiastical parish, Wetheral parish, Cumberland, on the river Eden, 1 mile N of Wetheral station on the N.E.R., and 5 miles from Carlisle. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Carlisle, and a four-arched bridge, and was the scene of a routing of some Royalists by Lambert in 1648. There are woollen, dyeing, bleaching, and paper mills. The parish church, a Roman Catholic church, and a Wesleyan chapel are in the village.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Warwick Bridge from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Warwick Bridge 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)