Barton, Westmorland Family History Guide

Barton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Westmorland.

Other places in the parish include: High Winder, High Barton, Barton Fell, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Thorpe, Stockbridge and Tirril, Stockbridge and Tirrel, Stackrow Divisions, Sockbridge, Pooley, and Low Winder.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St Michael

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1676
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1666

Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker

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Adjacent Parishes

Barton Parish Registers

The Registers of the Parish Church of Barton, Westmorland. Baptisms and marriages. 1666-1812. Burials, 1666-1830. Transcribed by Henry Brierley, B.A., Hon. Secretary of the Lancashire Parish Register Society. Printed and Published with the consent of the Rev. T. sharp, Vicar of Barton, and issued to the subscribers to the Parish Register Section of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. Kendal: Titus Wilson, Printer. 1917. – This book is a free download from Parishmouse

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BARTON, a parish in West Ward district, Westmoreland; on the river Eamont, 3½ miles W by S of Clifton r. station, and 4 SW of Penrith. It extends along Ulleswater to its head at Patterdale; includes the townships of High Barton, Low Winder, Stockbridge and Tirril, Yanwath and Eamont-Bridge, and the chapelries of Martindale and Patterdale-with-Hartsop; and contains the post offices of Pooley-Bridge and Patterdale under Penrith. Acres, 35,312; of which 1,622 are water. Real property, £19,825. Pop., 1,808. Houses, 345.

The property throughout the townships is not much divided; and the greater part of it belonged to the Lancasters, and ha descended from them to the Earl of Lonsdale; while that of the two chapelries is subdivided. The scenery includes many of the most admired features of the Lake country; and will be noticed in our article on Ulleswater, and in other articles. Various minerals are found in the hills; particularly a variety of spars and petrifactions, on Bartonfell.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £170. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is a low large building, with a heavy tower between the nave and the chancel; was recently repaired and improved; and contains the tomb of one of the Lancasters, and monumental memorials of several other families. The chapelries of Martindale and Patterdale are separate benefices. A grammar school has an endowed income of £91; and other charities £23. Dr. Langbaine, the historian and antiquary, who died in 1657, was a native.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].