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34 BECKERMET. CUMBERLAND~ [KELLY'S BECKERMET, or Beckermont St. John, is a parish, tains the land is cold and barren; subsoil, gravel. The township and large village, deriving its name, as it is chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The believed, from its position at the confluence of the area is 2,929 acres of land and 12 of water; rateable Blackbeck and Kirkbeck rivulets. It has a station on value, £16,053; the population in 1891 was 602, and in the London and North Western and Furness joint rail 1901 was 516. way, and is 2~ miles south from Egremont and 8 south by-east from Whitehaven, in the Western division of Carleton is a hamlet about I~ miles north from the eonnty, petty sessional division and ward of Aller the village and I mile from Egremont; it consists of dale-above-Derwent, union and county court district of about a dozen houses pleasantly seated upon an Whitehaven, rural deanery of Gosfurth, archdeaconry eminence, froIlI which good views eastward of the moun of Furness and diocese of Carlisle. The river is here tains, the sea to the west, and the town of Egremont. crossed by a bridge. The church of St. John, beauti are obtained. fully situated on a hill, and rebuilt in 1810, was again rebuilt in 1878, at a cost of £2,400, chiefly raised by Low Mill is another hamlet, consisting of a few cot subscription, and is now an edifice of stone in the Early tages and the residence of Mrs. Spedding. English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, Parish Clerk, Alexander Buchanan. and a western turret with spire containing one bell: there are 250 sittings. The registers date from the year Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Oflice (Sub-Office. [733. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £150, Letters should have S.O. Cumberland added).-Mis& with residence, in the gift of Messrs. I. W. and S. L. Jane Bewley, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive at 7.25 Burns-Lindow, and held since 1870 by the Rev. William a.m. & 4.45 p.m.; dispatched at 12.15 & 7 p.m. Gabbott. Richardson's and Birley's charities, bequeathed The nearest telegraph office is at Calder Bridge; there in 1811 and 1838, consist of £164 12S. Consols, pro is also a telegraph office at the Railway 6tation (no ducing £4 2S. yearly, which is distributed in money. telegraphic business is transacted on sundays); re There are charities of £150 yearly value. S. H. le ceived at station only Fleming esq. D.L. of Rydal, Westmorland, is lord of the manor, and Lord Leconfield, Messrs. S. and I. The children of this parish attend the school at Becker Lindow, with a number of smaller proprietors, are the met St. Bridget principal landownera. The soil is of a light loamy Railway Station, William Geo. Miniken, station master description near the sea J towards the eastern moun- BEOKERMET ST. JOHN. Thompson John Barwick B.A. Bar Mawson baac, farmer, Grange wick stead Messenger Henry, miller (water). PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Chesters mill Adair Joseph B Adair JOSilph B. mining engineer Moore John, farmer Alexander Thomas, The Cottage Beckermet Mining Co. Limited, iron Mossop John, farmer, WOdD bank A tkinson John Richard, Bankfield ore- proprietors (James Stout, man Sanderson John, cowkeeper Chester Mu. Kerbanks house age1"); office, Workington Selkirk Isaac, farmer Davidson Christopher U. Hardheads BewIey Jane (Miss), draper,stationer, Smith John Alfd. farmer, MId Town Edgerton Mrs. Fernlea & post office Smith Richard, painter & decorator Freebody Mrs. Fernlea house BewIey William, marine engineer Steele Sarah Jane (Mrs.), Park Head Gabbott Rev. William, Vicarage Buchanan Alexander, assist. overseer P.H Gilliat Miss Cook Elizabeth (Mrs.) & J oseph, fa r- Thompson John, hind to J oseph Bar- Hartley Richa1"d, Coney garth mers, Grange wise esq. Yeorton Kennedy John, Fernlea house Dickinson William, tailor Trippiear WaIter, saw mill Kirkconnel Mrs. Wood bank Dologhan Henry J. quarry owner, Willis Wm. farmer, White How head Moore John, IDlcoats Beggarghyll quarry Wilson Edward, farmer, Mossdalts Robley Miss, Holly house Fidler George Wm.watch ma. & repr Robley Mrs. T. Ingleberg Ford John, farmer, Cobra castle CARLETON. Robley Mrs. John, Yourity Harrington John, farmer, Winscales Ford Mrs Selkirk Mrs. John, Beach house Harrison John, cattle dealer, Elm cot Brigg Bros. frmrs.Garlton Lodge frm Selkirk Isaae Hodgson Ben, farmer, Winscales Jackson Joseph, farmer Sherwen John, Grange Jenkinson John, farmer, Winscales Muncaster James, farTner Spedding Mrs. Low Mill house Kitchen John, farmer, Colt Close Powe John, farmer Stout James, Yeorton hall Lowery John, farmel', Hunter how Tyson Herbert, farmer BECKERMET ST. BRIDGET, with the hamlets of Calder Lordship, in which the old church is sitnated, is Fella Field, Yotton Fews and Skalderskew, is a parish, held under the Earl of Lonsdale. township and village, separated only by the Kirkbeck The soil is of a light loamy description; subsoil, rivulet from Beckermet St. John, in which parish there chiefly of gravel; the chief crops are wheat, barley, oats is a station on the London and North Western and and turnips. The area is 5,004 acres of land, 73 of in Furness joint railway. The village is about 3 miles land and 6 of tidal water and 318 of foreshore; rateable south-east of Egremont and 8 south froID Whitehaven, value, £5,685; the population in 1901 was 555· in the Western division of the county, petty sessional Sella Field is a hamlet 2 miles south of the division and ward of Allerdale-above-Derwent, union and village; it consists principally of a few scattered farm county court dilltrict of Whitehaven, rural deanery of houses, and has a junction station on the London and Gosforth, archdeaconry of Furness and diocese of Car North Western and Furness joint railways. lisle. The parish from east to west is nearly 8 miles long, its breadth in no part excepding I~ miles. The Yotton Fews is a hamlet in the parish of St. Bridget village is practically a continuation of Little Beckermet Beckermet, I! miles south from the village, consisting of or Beckermet St. John, as it is g-enerally termed-and a few scattered farmhouses. Here is an ancient manor consists chiefly of remarkably clean whitewashed dwell house, called Sella Park, formerly belonging to the ings, with other modern and more substantially built monks of Calder Abbey, and now the residence of John residences of stone. The church of St. Bridget, situated Young Sargent esq. in a lonely spot about half a mile from the villag-e, is Calder Bridge is a village in this parish; names will an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, be found under Oalder Bridge. with a western turret containing- 2 bells, and· affords Skalderskew is a hamlet 6 miles north-east from the about roo sittings: this church is now principally used village, and consisting only of one farm. for burials, the ordinary ~ervices being held at the church of St. Bridget, Calder Bridge, but divine service Parish Clerk, vacant. is occasionally held here during the summer. In the Letters arrive from Beckermet S.O. which is the nearest churchyard staond the shafts of two early stone crosses, money order office, at 6.55 a.ID.; the nearest telegraph with carved work and inscriptions. The registers date office is at Calderbridg-e; there is also a telegraph from the year 1675. The living is a vicarage, with office at the Railway station, but no telegraphic Calderbridge annexed, joint net yearly value £178, with business is transacted on sundays; delivery at station 18 acres of glebe, in the gift of T. Harrison Rymer esq. only. Letters have to be posted at Beckermet, whence and held since 1902 by the Rev. Hugh Macefield Fairlie they are dispatched at 7.15 p.m M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, who resides at Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1858 & en. Calder Bridge. This manor formerly belonged to Sir larged in 1872, for 140 children; average attendance, Richard Hutton, Justice of the Common Pleas 1617-38, 83; Wm. Brown, master; Mrs. Fanny Brown, mistress who exchanged it for Goldsborow, in Yorkshire; it Railway Station, Sella Field, John BrQadbelt, station now belongs to General Wyndham. One estate called master.

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