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CALDER-BRIDGE, a village and a chapelry in Ponsonby parish, Cumberland. The village stands on the Calder river, 1¼ mile NNE of Sellafield r. station, and 4 SE by S of Egremont; and has a post office under Whitehaven, and two inns. The chapelry includes the village; and is a p. curacy, annexed to Beckermet-St. Bridget, in the diocese of Carlisle. The church was built in 1842, and is a cruciform structure, in the early English style, with a pinnacled tower. Ponsonby Hall, the seat of J. E. Stanley, Esq., is in the southern vicinity of the village; and Calder Abbey, the seat of Captain Irwin, adjoins abbey ruins, on the left bank of the river, about a mile above. The abbey was founded, in 1134, by Ranulph, second Earl of Chester, for Cistertian monks; became a dependency of the Abbey of Furness; and was given, at the dissolution, to Thomas Leigh. A large portion of its church, in mingled Norman and early English, with the central tower, and richly robed in parasitic plants, still stands. Vestiges of a Roman camp are on the opposite side of the river.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Ponsonby CP/AP Cumberland AncC |
| Place: | Calder Bridge |
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