Langdale, Westmorland Family History Guide

Langdale is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1744 from a chapelry in Grasmere Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Loughrigg, Little Langdale, Great Langdale, Elter-water, and Chapel Mire.

Alternative names: Langdales

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1827
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1799

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

• St John’s in the Vale, Cumberland
• Church Coniston, Lancashire
• Borrowdale, Cumberland
• Hawkshead, Lancashire
• Ulpha, Cumberland
• Rydal and Loughrigg
• Millom, Cumberland
• Grasmere

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LANGDALE, a hamlet and a township-chapelry in Grasmere parish, Westmoreland.

The hamlet stands in Great Langdale vale, 4 miles W by N of Ambleside, and 8 NW of Windermere r. station.

The chapelry contains also the hamlet of Elter-water, which has a post-office under Windermere; and it comprises the vales of Great Langdale and Little Langdale, and a portion of Loughrigg. Acres, 7,702. Real property, £2,155; of which £70 are in quarries. Pop., 534. Houses, 109. But these statistics are exclusive of the Loughrigg portion. The property is subdivided.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £143. Patron, the Rector of Grasmere. The church stands at Langdale hamlet, and was built in 1858. A previous church was in Little Langdale, at a place now called Chapel-Mire.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

Census returns for Langdale, 1841-1891

Bishop’s transcripts for Langdale, 1799-1871 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Langdale (Westmoreland)

Parish register printouts of Langdale (by Ambleside), Westmoreland, England, christenings, 1799-1871

Maps

OS Grid Reference: NY3041106514 (all-numeric format: 330411 506515)

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