Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BECKERMET-ST. JOHN

BECKERMET-ST. JOHN, a parish in Whitehaven district., Cumberland; on the coast and on the Whitehaven and Furness railway, from Beckermet township north-westward to the vicinity of Nethertown station. Post Town, Beckermet, under Whitehaven. Acres, 2,752. Rated property, £2,563. Pop., 492. Houses, 100. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage. in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £96.* Patron, H. Gaitskell, Esq. The church is modern.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Beckermet St John CP/AP       Whitehaven RegD/PLU       Cumberland AncC
Place: Beckermet

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