Blennerhasset

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Blennerhasset
Cumberland

The bridge at Blennerhasset
Location
Grid reference: NY178415
Location: 54°45’43"N, 3°16’42"W
Data
Post town: Wigton
Postcode: CA7
Local Government
Council: Cumberland

Blennerhasset is a village in western Cumberland, at a bridge over the River Ellen, two miles east of Aspatria. According to the 2001 census, the parish of 'Blennerhasset and Torpenhow' had a population of 437, reduced to 423 at the 2011 Census.

A Roman fort[1] has been found on the old Roman Road between Old Carlisle NY263466 and Papcastle NY109314, outside the village.

Name

'Blennerhasset' derives from the Old Norse 'heysætr', 'hay shieling', which has been added to a British language place-name containing 'blaen', 'top'. Ekwal; explains the '-er-' part in the middle of the word as the Old Welsh tre meaning 'village' or 'estate', hence blaen-dre as 'top farm'.[2][3]

Blennerhasset Mill

Blennerhasset Mill (at NY419185) is on the south bank of the River Ellen. Plans are in hand to re-establish the mill and make it energy neutral by having it produce its own energy from a rebuilt water wheel.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Blennerhasset)

References

  1. Roman Britain
  2. Ekwall, Eilert (1922). The place-names of Lancashire. Manchester: Chetham Society. 
  3. Armstrong, A. M.; Mawer, A.; Stenton, F. M.; Dickens, B. (1950). The place-names of Cumberland. English Place-Name Society, vol.xxi. part 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 265–66.