Cumrew
| Cumrew | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
 Cumrew | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY550503 |
| Location: | 54°50’47"N, 2°42’4"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 85 (2001) |
| Post town: | Brampton |
| Postcode: | CA8 |
| Dialling code: | 01768 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Penrith and The Border |
Cumrew is a small village in the north-east of Cumberland, about seven miles south of Brampton and thirteen miles east of Carlisle. The village stands at the edge of the King's Forest of Geltsdale, where the Pennines begin in earnest, at the foot of the westernmost of its hills, Cumrew Fell (1,600 feet).
The wider parish of Cumrew encompass 2,686 acres. The village itself though is small, along a short lane forming a crescent off the B6413.
The population of the civil parish taken at the 2001 census was 85, increasing to 131 at the 2011 Census.
The Village
The parish borders Croglin, Cumwhitton, Carlatton, and Castle Carrock. It consists of just 33 households.
Business in Cumrew is very limited and consisted of farms and an engineering company called Clive Walton Engineering Limited. The local farms include Rising Sun, Helme and Gateshaw Mill.
History
In a field near the church an outline of an extensive quadrangle is visible as a memory of a building of a past age, on which Hutchinson commented when he visited the area: he suggested that this trace is the remains of Dunwalloght Castle. There is little evidence to supports this claim though and when two small mounds were removed in 1832 there was no trace of a foundation of a castle nor deeper masonry. To support Hutchinson's clam of that it was the site of Dunwalloght Castle, it is noted that the Dacre family formerly owned two small estates here, which they sold to Sir Christopher Musgrave and Dugdale, in his Baronage. Beyond this allusion nothing is known, either of its history or its site.[1]
Bulmer wrote:
On the summit of Cardunnock, whose British name has descended to us with considerable purity with ancient Keltic inhabitants. Near is a cairn of stones. An accumulation of these stones must have cost the expenditure of a vast amount of labour. Is where some British chief was laid to rest, with his war axe and flint headed spear beside him. [...] Great indeed must have been the importance of the mighty dead, for whom these sepulchres on the mountains' brow were reared ; and as when living they were held in honour, so they were set forth on their long journey to the unseen land of Annwyn - the Celtic Paradise of the west - it may be with a nation's tribute of reverence and love."[1]
St Mary's Church
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary, built in 1890 and designed by George Dale Oliver. The church is very small with a small tower to the west of the church which holds two bells.
The church is today a Grade II listed building.[2]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Description of Cumrew from T. Bulmer & Co's 'History, Topography and Directory of East Cumberland' (1884)
- ↑ Church of St Mary, Cumrew - British Listed Buildings