A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
NENTHEAD, a village and a chapelry in Alston parish, Cumberland. The village stands on the river Nent, about a mile below its source, 1½ mile W of the meeting point of Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, and 4 S E of Alston r. station; is a considerable place; and has a post-office under Carlisle, and a market house, surmounted by a turret. The chapelry extends to thecounty boundary; consists chiefly of moor and mountain; and contains lead-mines and smelting houses, belongingto the London Lead company. Pop. in 1851, 1, 964; in 1861, 2,039. Houses, 382. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £140.* Patron, the Vicar of Alston. The church is modern. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and national schools.
(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: | Cumberland AncC |
| Place: | Nenthead |
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