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"ALSTON, (or Alston Moor or Aldstone), a parish and market town in Leath ward, in the county of Cumberland, 29 miles to the S.E. of Carlisle, or 35 miles by rail; and 281 miles from London, or 290 by the Great Northern and York, Newcastle and Borwick railways. It contains the curacies of Garrigill and Nenthead, and the hamlets of Clarghyll, Nentsbury, Leadgate, and Nenthall. The town stands on the slope of a hill, on the right bank of the south Tyne, near the confluence of the Nent with that river." [Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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| Gossip Gate Chapel, Alston, Independent |
| Cemetry, Alston, Cemetery |
| Friends' Meeting House, Alston, Society of Friends |
The original registers and bishops transcripts are apparently held in Durham Record Office, but microfilm copies are available at Carlisle.
| Parish | Church | Baptisms | Marriages | Burials | Banns | BTs | IGI Batches | Research Wiki |
| Alston | 1700-1959 | 1700-1959 | 1754-1942 | 1700-1960 | 1762-1840 | |||
| Alston | Primitive Methodist | 1825-1936 | ||||||
| Alston | Wesleyan Methodist | 1838-1951 | 1849-1873 | |||||
| Alston (Allendale) | Society of Friends | 1839-1902 | 1873-1917 | Carlisle | ||||
| Alston and Garrigill (Redwing) | Congregational | 1801-1974 | 1821-1942 | 1782-1942 | Carlisle | |||
| Alston Moor | Congregational | 1763-1801: 1859-1860 | 1843-1858 | Carlisle | ||||
| Alston, St Paul | Wesleyan Methodist | 1935-1993 | ||||||
| Nenthead | Wesleyan Methodist | 1838-1963 | ||||||
| Nentsbury | Methodist | 1837-1958 |
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Images of the Bishops Transcripts for Alston and Alston with Garrigill
and transcriptions are available for download
- Marriages 1701-1783 (50 kbytes).
- Marriages 1784-1812 (51 kbytes).
- Marriages 1813-1837 (46 kbytes).
- The transcription of the section for Alston from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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