Milnthorpe, Westmorland Family History Guide
Milnthorpe is an Ecclesiastical Parish and a market town in the county of Westmorland, created in 1839 from Heversham Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Dallam Tower.
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Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1837
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1855
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MILNTHORPE, a village, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Kendal district, Westmoreland. The village stands on the river Kent, at the influx of the river Beetha, near the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 2½ miles N of the boundary with Lancashire, and 8 S of Kendal.
It consists chiefly of one long well built street, with some handsome houses in the environs; has undergone extensive modern improvement; is a small seaport, the only one in the county, carrying on commerce chiefly in a coasting trade; is also a seat of petty sessions; and has a head post office, a railway station with telegraph, a good inn, a church, an Independent chapel, and a national school. The church was built in 1837; and is a handsome edifice, in the lancet style. One of two workhouses of the Kendal district stands a short distance to the NE; and was built in 1813, at a cost of £5,000.
Dallam Tower, the seat of the Wilson family, stands adjacent on the left bank of the Beetha.
A weekly-market is held on Friday; fairs, for. cattle, sheep, and horses, are held on 12 May and 17 Oct.; the manufacture of twine, sheeting, sacking, sailcloth, and coarse woollens, and the working of paper mills and flax mills are carried on; and there are, in the neighbourhood, extensive quarries of limestone and marble.
The chapelry includes the village, is in Heversham parish, and was constituted in 1838. Rated property, £3,979. Pop., 1,073. Houses, 213. The property is subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £120. Patron, the Vicar of Heversham. The sub-district contains six townships of Heversham, four of Beetham, and two of Kendal. Pop., 5,994. Houses, 1,139.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
MILNTHORPE, with Heversham, a township, in the parish of Heversham, union and ward of Kendal, county of Westmorland, 7½ miles (S. by W.) from Kendal, 32 (S. W. by S.) from Appleby, and 256 (N. W. by N.) from London; containing 1599 inhabitants, of whom 1159 are in the market-town of Milnthorpe.
The town consists of four short streets, with some detached houses of neat appearance, and is beautifully situated in a valley on the northern bank of the river Bela, which empties itself into the estuary of the Ken: at spring tides the sea flows up to within a mile of the town. There are quarries of marble and limestone, and indications of iron-ore and of coal: a flax-mill and a ropery are in operation. Three-quarters of a mile east, is the Milnthorpe station of the Lancaster and Carlisle railway. The market is on Friday; and fairs are held on May 12th, and Oct. 17th, for cattle, sheep, and horses. Courts leet and baron are held annually.
St. Thomas’ church, consecrated on the 1st of October, 1837, stands prettily in the centre of the town; it is in the early English style, with a tower and pinnacles, and cost about £1600. Attached to it is a district including the hamlet of Ackenthwaite. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Heversham; income, £120, with a house. A national school is partly supported by subscription.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Milnthorpe Parish Records
FamilySearch
The chronicles of Milnthorpe Author: Bingham, Roger K.
Census returns for Heversham with Milnthorpe, 1841-1891
Bishop’s transcripts for Heversham, 1718-1914
Bishop’s transcripts for Milnthorpe, 1855-1915
Parish register printouts of Milnthorpe, Westmoreland, England ; christenings, 1855-1875
Westmorland Historical Directories
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