Waverton, Cumberland

Historical Description

Waverton, a village and a township in Wigton parish, Cumberland, on the river Waver, 2½ miles W by S of Wigton station on the Maryport and Carlisle railway. There is a post office under Wigton; money order and telegraph office, Wigton. The township includes the hamlet of Lesson Hall. Acreage, 4169; population, 439. Lord Leconfield is lord of the manor. There is a small chapel of ease in the Early English style erected in 1865.

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 Waverton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Waverton 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)