Little Salkeld, Cumberland
Historical Description
Salkeld, Little, a small village and a township in Addingham parish, Cumberland, on the river Eden, 5½ miles NE of Penrith, with a station on a section of the M.R Post town, Carlisle; money order office, Langwathby; telegraph office, at the railway station. Acreage, 1142, including 25 of water; population, 111. The Dean and Chapter of Carlisle are lords of the manor. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Addingham. Services are held in a barn which has been adapted for the purpose, and provides 60 sittings. The ancient chapel stood near the river, and was undermined and washed away. Near the village are the remains of a Druidical circle, called Long Meg and her Daughters, consisting of sixty-nine large unhewn stones so placed as to form an irregular oval. Long Meg is about 12 feet high, and weighs about 17 tons.
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 | Addingham | |
| Poor Law union | Penrith | |
| Ward | Leath |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The ancient chapel here stood near the river, by the overflowing of which it is said to have been undermined and washed away; it was appropriated in 1282 to the priory and convent of Carlisle, and was desecrated so early as 1360. The present chapel of St Mary was originally a barn, but has been converted and fitted for the purposes of divine service, and affords 60 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Little Salkeld from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Salkeld, Little)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Little Salkeld 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)