Raughton Head Cumberland Family History Guide
Raughton Head is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cumberland, created in 1737 from Castle Sowerby Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Raughton and Gaitsgill, Raughton Head with Gatesgill, Raughtonhead
Other places in the parish include: Gatesgill.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1663
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1702
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Raughton Head
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
RAUGHTON-HEAD, a chapelry in Castle-Sowerby parish, Cumberland; on the river Caldew, 3¾ miles S by W of Dalston r. station, and 7 SSW of Carlisle. It has a post-office under Carlisle.
Rated property, £1, 941. Pop., not separately returned. The property is much subdivided.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £100. Patrons, Twelve Trustees. The church was rebuilt in 1678, and enlarged in 1760.
There is a slightly endowed school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
RAUGHTON-HEAD, a chapelry, in the parish of Castle-Sowerby, union of Penrith, Leath ward, E. division of Cumberland, 7½ miles (S. by W.) from Carlisle.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £100; patron, the Vicar of Castle-Sowerby; appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. The chapel was rebuilt in the year 1678, and enlarged in 1760.
A school-house was erected in 1744, by John Head, and rebuilt in 1806.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Raughton with Gaitsgill
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
RAUGHTON, with Gatesgill, a township, in the parish of Dalston, union of Carlisle, ward and E. division of Cumberland, 5½ miles (S. by W.) from the city of Carlisle; containing 318 inhabitants.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Cumberland
- Civil Registration District: Carlisle; Penrith
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Carlisle (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Carlisle
- Rural Deanery: Allerdale
- Poor Law Union: Penrith
- Hundred: Leath Ward
- Province: York