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Description from Mannix & Whellan's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland, 1847

Transcription by Carol Bennett © 1999


ALLHALLOWS.

ALLHALLOWS PARISH is bounded by the parishes of Aspatria, Torpenhow, Bromfield and Bolton Gate. The land is generally level, but varying in quality from a loam or gravel, to black wet earth. A coal pit has recently been opened here, which promises to be tolerably productive. It is divided into four districts called Ukmanby, Whitehall, Harby and Baggray, but they form only one township, which was anciently a chapelry under Aspatria. UKMANBY is said to have been an entire manor, granted by Alan, second lord of Allerdale, to Ranulph de Lindsey, with his sister Ochtreda. It came to the Tilliols by marriage, which family ending in females, the estate was sold to several purchasers. WHITEHALL was a manor and mansion of a younger branch of the Salkelds of Corby, and lies on the east side of the parish. The hall, now a farm house, bears date 1589. Sixty yards north of it is a mound with the confused remains of some ancient building; and about 200 yards south, is an entrenchment surrounded with a ditch, and having near it the ruins of extensive buildings. HARBY BROW, also a farm house, is an antique edifice with a tower 30 feet square and 60 feet high, and in an adjoining building are the letters and date "F. 1594, H." It formed a distinct manor of the ancient name of Leesgill or Leesrigg, and was in the possession of the Highmores, who sold it to the Blencows, of whom it was purchased about ninety years ago by a Mr. Steel. The manor house which stood upon the banks of the river Ellen, has long been in ruins. The population of the parish in 1841 was 235 souls. The Church dedicated to All Saints is a small ancient fabric, about six miles SW of Wigton. It was certified to the governors of queen Anne's bounty at 9 pounds per annum, but has since received two augmentations from that bounty with which land was purchased, so that the living, which is a perpetual curacy in the patronage of the Bishop of Carlisle, is now worth about 80 pounds a year. The Rev. Thomas Thompson is the incumbent. BAGGERY, BAGGRAY or BAGGRAW is a small village on the river Ellen, seven miles SW of Wigton, opposite to Blennerhasset, containing a public house, four farmers and a few tradespeople. 1 pound a year is given to the poor of the parish. History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland, Mannix & Whellan, 1847.

[Transcribed by Carol Bennett in 1999]

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