Harrington, Cumberland Family History Guide
Harrington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Cumberland.
Other places in the parish include: Bellaport Harbour.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1688
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HARRINGTON, a small seaport town, a parish, and a sub-district in Whitehaven district, Cumberland. The town stands on Bellaport harbour, and on the Whitehaven Junction railway, 2¾ miles S of Workington; is of modern origin, and a sub-port to Whitehaven. It carries on a considerable trade, chiefly as a focus of export for extensive neighbouring mines; has a ship-building yard and a ropery, and formerly had chemical works; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Carlisle. The harbour has a pier and a fixed light; the latter 44 feet high, visible at the distance of 11 miles, and put up in 1797.
The parish comprises 2,338 acres of land, and 452 of water. Real property, £5,497; of which £86 are in ironworks. Pop. in 1851, 2,169; in 1861, 1,788. Houses, 426. The decrease of pop. was occasioned by the discontinuance of the chemical works, and by diminution of coal-working. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £250. Patron, E. S. Curwen, Esq. The church is a neat edifice, with a tower; and there are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Harrington Parish Registers
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Harrington, 1841-1891
Church Records
Church records, 1783-1966 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Harrington (Cumberland)
Church records, 1877-1950 Author: Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Harrington, Cumberland)
Church records – Indexes
Computer printout of Harriangton, Cumb., Eng
Cemeteries
The Memorial inscriptions of the parish church of St. Mary’s, Harrington (old churchyard)
Cumberland Historical Directories
Directory Transcriptions
Kelly’s Directory of the Leather Trades 1880
HARRINGTON
Boot & Shoe Maker
Birkett William Christian st
Clog & Patten Maker
Isaac Curwen street
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Cumberland
- Civil Registration District: Whitehaven
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Copeland
- Diocese: Carlisle
- Rural Deanery: Copeland
- Poor Law Union: Whitehaven
- Hundred: Allerdale above Derwent Ward
- Province: York