Setmurthy, Cumberland

Historical Description

Setmurthy, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Brigham parish, Cumberland, near Cockermouth town, and 1 mile from Bassenthwaite Lake station on the Cockermonth, Keswick, and Penrith railway. Post town and money order office, Cockermouth; telegraph office, Bassenthwaite Lake station. Acreage of township, 2780; population, 139; of the ecclesiastical parish, 158. Lord Leconfield is lord of the manor. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £70. The church was built in 1794 and restored in 1870. There is an endowed school.

Administration

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Setmurthy from the following:

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

Land and Property

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