Bullgill

Bullgill
Cumberland
Bullgill
Location
Grid reference:	NY094384
Location:	54°43’59"N, 3°24’22"W
Data
Post town:	Maryport
Postcode:	CA15
Dialling code:	01900
Local Government
Council:	Cumberland
Parliamentary constituency:	Workington

Bullgill is a hamlet in Cumberland. It is located to the northeast of Dearham, four and a half miles by road northeast of Maryport and just half a mile southeast of Crosby Villa. The River Ellen flows nearby.

History

The Ellen Pit coal mine was sunk in 1859.

Bullgill railway station

There was once a railway station at Bullgill, connecting the village and the pit with Carlisle. The station closed to passengers on 7 March 1960. Bullgill station was the nearest to Maryport.

A poem, attributed to Gordon Nicholl, describes the demise of Bulgill Colliery in about 1910 in the original Cumberland dialect:

Bulgill's buggert marra
Wukken out cum's fast
If thou gits t'backshift in
That cud be thee last

T'Powney's gone till Riser
T'Ingins gone till t'seals
Thompson's up afoort t'boss
Fer pinchun six inch neals

Tyson's gone till Buthy
Cass till Outerside
Uncle Joe's at Number Fower
An Tom's at Number Five

Bulgill's buggert marra
Just a wa' o stean
Divent ga 'till Buthy
Thoo's better off at yam.

Ere we ga up t'clog trod
In till t'Railway Pub
Get thee wissel wet me lad
See-un thou'll be on't club.

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