Arnside, Westmorland
Historical Description
Arnside, a village in Beetham parish, Westmoreland, on the coast, near the Furness railway, at the influx of the river Kent to Morecambe Bay, 4½ miles W of Burton-in-Kendal. It has a station on the railway, a post, money order, and telegraph office under Camforth, and a church built in 1866. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, about £80. Patron, the Vicar of Beetham. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. Arnside Knot is an adjacent eminence, commanding an extensive prospect; and Arnside Tower, on that eminence, is the ruined ancient residence of the Stanleys.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Westmorland | |
Civil parish | Beetham | |
Poor Law union | Kendal | |
Ward | Kendal |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Arnside from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Westmorland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Arnside 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)