[CUMBERLAND.] BRAMPTON. 120 POST OFFICE Liddle Joseph, Blacksmith Commercial

[CUMBERLAND.] BRAMPTON. 120 POST OFFICE Liddle Joseph, blacksmith coMMERCIAL. Holliday Nathan, farmer Mitchison Robert, joiner, Green spot Barnes John, Travellers' Rest Pattinson Robert, farmer, Whitrigg ho Wbiterigg. Crozier Thomas, farmer V ever Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Pattinson Mr. Robert, Whitrigg hall Glaister John & William, farmers V ever William, farmer BRAMPTON is a township, parish, small market town, National school was completed in 1857, at a cost of £1,260, and polling place for the eastern division of Cumberland, and has an average attendance of 150 children. The English distant 9~ miles-east-north-east from Carlisle, 50~ west from Presbyterian school is attended by about 60 scholars. The Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 305 north-north-west from London, Infant school has an average attendance of 100 children. and H from Milton station on the Newcastle and Carlisle This township is situate in the Eskdale Ward, union of its railway; it is bounded on the north by Deuton, Lanercost, own name, eastern division of the county, and diocese of and Walton ; on the east by Northumberland; on the south Carlisle, and according to the historian Camtlen, this town by Hayton, Castle Carrock, and Geltsdale Forest, and on the was formerly the site of the Roman station Bremetenracum, west hy Irthington. The town is situated between the rivers which some modern writers, with more probability, have Irthing and Gelt, tributaries of the Eden, about 1 mile south fixed as Old Penrith. The town sustained an extensive of the former, and 2~ from the point where they unite, and siege during the wars of Edward II., of which, as well as of lies about 2 miles south of the Roman wall, in a deep its e!ll'lier importance it still exhibits evident marks. In narrow vale surrounded by considerable eminences, most of November, 1715, a large force under the command of Mr. which, being either clothed in wood or well cultivated, add Forster, who had 1·eceived a general's commission from greatly to the picturesque scenery of the neighbourhood. It J ames Stuart, entered the town, where they proclaimed the consists of two principal streets, the houses of which are Pretender, and hence marched to Penrith, and during the irregularly built, and a spacious market-place; many of the rebellion of 1745, Charles Edward Stewart, the unfortunate houses have been rebuilt, and are of neat appearance, and adventurer, led his troops hither to observe the movements the inhabitants are well supplied .with water. The only ofGeueral Wade, who was erroneously reported to be march branch of manufacture is that of weaving ginghams, in ing from Newcastle to the relief of Carlisle, and after which a number are employed. There are two breweries, remaining here for several days at a house, now converted a tannery, and skin yard. The railway between Newcastle into the Freemasons Arms inn, and in which is still and Carlisle passes about 1~ miles to the south-east, and is pointed out his council chamber, he proceeded to Carlisle, connected with the town by a good turnpike road and also which had surrendered to his arms. James Wallace, Esq., a by means of the E!ll'l of Carlisle's railway, which extends to native of this parish, raised himself by his talents and the coal and lime works of Tindal Fell, and by which coal industry from very humble circumstances to the office of and lime are brought hither in great abundance. Fairs are Attorney General, but died at the age of 53 in the height of held on April 20th, the second Wednesday after Whitsun- his reputation, and" when the highest honors his profession tide, the second Wednesday in September, and the 23rd of could offer or his country bestow were within his grasp." October, for cattle, sheep, and pigs. Courts leet are held for Another distinguished man, in the person of Dr. Guy Carlton, the barony of Gilsland at Easter and Michaelmas. The was also a native of this parish. He was Bishop of Bristol, market is held every Wednesday, in a spacious area, in the after which he succeeded to the see of Chichester, and died centre of which stands tl1e Town-hall, a neat octagonal in 1685, after suffering much for his loyalty previous to the edifice with a cupola, erected by the Earl of Carlisle in 1817 Restoration. The townships in the parish are Brampton, on the site of a former building. A wool fair is held on the Easby, and Naworth, which jointly comprise IG,970 acres, 17th of June. An annual regatta and wrestling is held in and which, in 1841, contained 3,365 souls, and, in 1851, ,824. the month of August at Talkin Tarn, a spacious sheet of EASBY township, with the small hamlet of CROOKED water covering an extent of 90 acres, or thereabouts, distant HoLME, contains a few scattered houses, g miles north If miles from the town. These sports are well attended by north-east from Brampton. At Cambeck, a stone bridge of the inhabitants of the adjoining neighbourhood, also by two arches has been recently built, at a cost of £2,000. The parties from more distant parts. The police office is a neat chief landed proprietors are the Earl of Carlisle and W. P. building, erected in 1846. The petty sessions are held in the Johnson, Esq. The population, in 1851, was 99. above every Wednesday. There are a mechanics' institute, NAWORTH, with the hamlet of BoOTHBY, is a small working man's reading-room, gas works, stamp office, a township, containing Naworth Castle and a few dispersed benefit building society, and several clubs. The workhouse dwellings, situate on the south side of the river Irthing, and is situated half a mile south of Brampton. The Board of distant 2~ miles north-east from Brampton, and 11 east• Guardians meet every alternate Wednesday. The Brampton from Carlisle. N a worth Castle, the baronial mansion of the union comprises the following townships, viz.: .AsKERTON, great barony of Gilsland, is the occasional seat of the Earl of BRAMPTON,BURTHOLME, CASTLE CARROcK,CUMREW, Carlisle, and previous to its destruction by fire on May CUMWHITTON, NORTHSCOUGH, MOORTHWAITE, DEN- 18th, 1844, consisted of two lofty square towers, connecte'd TON LOWElt, DENTON UPPER, FARLAM, HAYTON, byotber masses of masonry, enclosing a quadrangular court, lRTHINGTON, KINGWATER, WALTON, and WATER- and tlle good taste of its noble owner preserved it in the HEAD. The county court is held every alternate month same style in which it appe!ll'ed when fortified, about 1569, at the ' Howard .Arms.' The following parishes and by Lord William Howard-the ''Belted Will" of "The townships are under the jurisdiction of the court-:- Lay of the Last Minstrel." This noble building has justly Brampton, Castle Carrock, Cumrew, Cumwhitton, Den- been called "the stronghold of the most powerful of the ton Upper, Deuton Nether, Farlam, Hayton, Irthington, barons who came in with the Conqueror," "the seat of Lanercost, Walton, Bewcastle, Stapleton, Scaleby, Hethers- feudal splendour, feudal grandeur, and feudal tyranny,"" the gill, Kirklinton Middle. The old parish church stands on last perfect specimen of the residences of the Border Chiefs," the east bank of the river Irthing, about I! miles west of the "the Pride of the North," &c. Its successive proprietors, town, the cemetery of which is still used by several families, from the earliest period, have been closely connected with and the burial service is performed in the chancel, the only the city of Carlisle, which has for nearly two centuries given portion of this sacred edifice now remaining. This ancient the title of earl to a branch of the noble house of Howard. fabric was very extensive, but being in a ruinous state, the The Gilsland barony includes Brampton, Carlatton, Castle nave, side aisles and Rteeple were taken down in 1788, and Carrock, Cumrew, Cumwhitton, Deuton (Netl1er), Deuton the materials used in the erection of the new church in (Upper), Farlam, Hayton, Irthington, and Lanercost Brampton, which was considerably enlarged in 1827 at a Abbey. Sir Charles Howard, of Naworth, eldest son of cost of £1,800, when a new organ and an excellent peal of Sir William, son of Sir Philip, son of Lord William Howard, 6 bells (the largest of which weighs half a ton) were added; was highly instrumental in the restoration of King the organ and 5 of the bells were the liberal donation of the Charles II., and in 1601 was created "Baron Dacre, of Rev. Thomas Ramshay, tbe late vicar. The benefice is a Gilsland, Viscount Howard, of 1\Iorpeth, and Earl of V!ll' vicarage, valued at £466, with residence, in the gift of the lisle." Between the years 1722 and 1731, Charles Howard, Earl of Carlisle. The Rev. Christopher Benson, M.A., is third son of the Earl of Carlisle, lmilt the splendid mansion the incumbent; the Rev. Peter Bennett, B.A., is the curate. of Castle Howard, near Malton, in Yorkshire, whet"e his The dissenting places of worship in the town are the successors have since resided. Henry, the fourth earl, died English Presbyterian, Independent, W esleyan, and Primi- in 1758; be was succeeded by Frederick, tl1e fifth earl, who tive Methodist chapels. Croft House academy, an extensive was succeeded by his eldest son George, the present and and well-conducted classical and commercial establishment: sixth Earl of Carlisle, lord of the barony of Gilsland, and is under the superintendence of Mr. J oseph Coulthard. The the noble owner of N a worth Castle. Brampton. Bennett Rev. Peter, B.A. [curate], Coulthard Joseph, esq.J.P.

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