Crosscrake, Westmorland Family History Guide

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Crosscrake an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1756 from a chapelry in Heversham Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Sedgwick.

Alternative names: Crossake

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1755
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1825

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CROSSCRAKE, a chapelry, with a village, in Heversham parish, Westmoreland; adjacent to the Kendal canal, the river Ken, and the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 1½ mile SSW of Oxenholme r. station, and 3¼ S of Kendal. Post town, Stainton, under Milnthorpe.

Rated property, £2, 178. Pop., 544. The property is much subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £145. Patron, the Vicar of Heversham. The church is tolerable.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

The memorial inscriptions of St. Thomas’ Crosscrake, St. John’s Levens, St. Thomas’ Milnthorpe and St. Paul’s Witherslack

Bishop’s transcripts for Crosscrake, 1825-1869

Bishop’s transcripts for Heversham, 1718-1914

Parish register printouts of Crosscrake, Westmoreland, England, christenings, 1825-1869

Maps

OS Grid Reference: SD5240687081 (all-numeric format: 352407 487081)

Vision of Britain historical maps
OS maps

Ordnance Survey
OS maps

National Library of Scotland
OS maps

Administration

  • County: Westmorland
  • Civil Registration District: Kendal
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Kendal
  • Diocese: Chester
  • Rural Deanery: Kendal
  • Poor Law Union: Kendal
  • Hundred: Kendal
  • Province: York