Martindale, Westmorland Family History Guide

Martindale is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1748 from a chapelry in Barton Ancient Parish.

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Parish registers: 1633
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1676

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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MARTINDALE, a chapelry in Barton parish, Westmoreland; on the E side of Ulleswater, 8 ½ miles SW by S of Clifton r. station, and 10 SSW of Penrith. Post town, Penrith. Acres, 8,060; of which 1,030 are water. Real property, £1,476. Pop., 174. Houses, 39. The property is subdivided.

Part of the land is common, and much is moor and mountain. The main portion is a glen, Martindale-proper, traversed by a streamlet 4¾ miles northward from Kidsty Pike to Ulleswater, at the W base of Hallin Fell; and this has a bare appearance, but contains a few scattered houses shaded by sycamores, and has, in its upper part, a hunting-box of the Hassels. A summit-point on its W flank, reached by a green footpath, commands a fine view over the lower reaches of mountains.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £87. Patron, A. W. Clarke, Esq. The church is a low-roofed ancient edifice, with a bell-gable; and was restored in 1833. There is an endowed national school.

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