Ivegill, Cumberland Family History Guide
Ivegill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Cumberland, created in 1771 from a chapelry in Dalston Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Highead, Highhead
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1709
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1771
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
IVEGILL, or HIGHHEAD, a township and a chapelry in Dalston parish, Cumberland; in Inglewood forest, 3¼ miles SW of Southwaite r. station, and 9 S by E of Carlisle. Post town, Dalston, under Carlisle. Pop. of the township, £126; of the chapelry, £526.
Highhead Castle here belonged to the Harclas, the Dacres, the L’Englises, and others; and has left some remains.
The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Carlisle. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Dalston. The church was built in 1867.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Church Records
Parish registers for Ivegill, 1709-1974 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Ivegill (Cumberland)
Computer printout of Highhead, Cumb., Eng
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Church records, 1673-1923 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Dalston (Cumberland)
Public records
Parish records, 1663-1810 Author: Ivegill (Cumberland)
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Cumberland
- Civil Registration District: Carlisle
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Carlisle (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Carlisle
- Rural Deanery: Wigton
- Poor Law Union: Carlisle
- Hundred: Cumberland Ward
- Province: York