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HESKET-IN-THE-FOREST, Cumberland - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"HESKET-IN-THE-FOREST, a parish in the ward of Leath, county Cumberland, 9 miles S.E. of Carlisle, its post town, and 9 N.W. of Penrith. It is situated on the river Eden, and is intersected by the Lancaster and Carlisle railway. The parish, which is of large extent, comprising above 10,000 acres, contains the village of Armathwaite, and the townships of Itonfield, Petteril-Crooks, Plumpton-street, with Nether and Upper Hesket, in Inglewood Forest, and the hamlet of Calthwaite. It is a polling place for the eastern division of the county. At Barrock in this parish is a fine variety of clay well adapted for the manufacture of porcelain. The living is a perpetual curacy I in the diocese of Carlisle, value £150. There is also a district church at Axmathwaite, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, value £50. The parish church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a modern structure, with an open turret containing two bells. The parochial charities produce about £18 per annum, chiefly endowment of the parochial schools. Here is a lake called Tam Wadling, famed for its production of the forest carp." "BRACKENBOROUGH, a hamlet in the county of Cumberland, about 6 miles to the N.W. of Penrith." "CALTHWAITE, a township in the parish of Hesket-in-the-Forest, Leath ward, in the county of Cumberland, 7 miles to the N. of Penrith. It is seated on the W. bank of the river Petterill, here crossed by a bridge, and is a station on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway." "ITONFIELD, a township in the parish of Hesket-in-the-Forest, Leath ward, county Cumberland, 8 miles N.W. of Penrith." "PETTERIL-CROOKS, a township in the parish of Hesket-in-the-Forest, Leath ward, county Cumberland, 9 miles N.W. of Penrith. It takes its name from a stream which rises in Greystoke Park, and falls into the river Eden. The principal residences are Petteril-Green and Petteril Bank." "PLUMPTON-STREET, a township in the parish of Hesket-in-the-Forest, ward of Leath, county Cumberland, 6 miles N. by W. of Penrith. It is situated near Plumpton Head, on the Roman way from Ambleside to Carlisle, and-was one of the haunts of Robin Hood." "UPPER HESKET, (and Nether Hesket) a township in the parish of Hesket-in-the-Forest, Leath ward, county Cumberland, 7½ miles S.E. of Carlisle. It includes the two considerable villages of Upper and Nether Hesket, situated on the road from Penrith to Carlisle, and is within the limits of Inglewood Forest. The Lancaster and Carlisle railway passes in the vicinity."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]