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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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Church Records

The original registers and bishops transcripts are apparently held in Durham Record Office, but microfilm copies are available at Carlisle.
 

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Alston

 

1700-1959

1700-1959

1754-1942

1700-1960

1762-1840

Alston

Alston

             

Nenthead

 

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

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