Grinsdale
| Grinsdale | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
 St Kentigern's, Grinsdale | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY367579 |
| Location: | 54°54’43"N, 2°59’10"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Carlisle |
| Postcode: | CA5 |
| Dialling code: | 01228 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Carlisle |
Grinsdale is a village in the parish of Beaumont, in northern Cumberland, standing beside the final, seaward meanders of the River Eden downstream of the county town, Carlisle.
Four Roman military marching camps were set up in the area. The rich loamy soil encouraged farming around Grinsdale. Linen manufacture and weaving once provided employment in the hamlet.
Parish church
The parish church is St Kentigern's, which stands outside the village and just above the river, on the site of its predecessor, a 12th-century church.
The church as it is seen today was built in or around 1740. It has a small west tower, a three-bay nave, and a two-bay chancel with arched windows. The church was restored in 1895.
The church of Grinsdale was given by Hugh de Morville to the priory of Lanercost, and became appropriated to that monastery. King Edward VI granted the rectory of Grinsdale to Sir Thomas Dacre; the great tithes were sold by the Dacre family in 1751, to the respective landholders. The church had been many years totally in ruins, which prompted Joseph Dacre to rebuild it at his own expense.[1]
History
This village is the source of the Grinsdale surname.[2]
This place gave name to a family who held Grinsdale under the Barony of Burgh.[1] The elder line failed about King John's time, when the co-heiresses married Newton and Le-Sor. Newton's lands passed by successive marriages to Martindale and Dacre, and having been forfeited to the crown, were granted to Whitmore, and passed by sale to the Dacre family of Kirklinton.[1] A younger brother continued the male line of the family of Grinsdale, and some of his posterity represented the city and the county in parliament. This branch became extinct about the reign of Henry IV when the co-heiresses sold their lands in Grinsdale to the Dentons, of whom they were purchased by the Lowthers about the year 1686. This estate passed to the Earl of Lonsdale, who was Lord Paramount of the manor, as parcel of his Barony of Burgh.[1]
About the village
The westernmost section of the Hadrian's Wall Path passes the church, on its way from Carlisle to Bowness-on-Solway by way of Kirkandrews-on-Eden, Beaumont, Cumberland and Burgh by Sands. The site of Milecastle 69 on Hadrian's Wall is thought to lie close to the village.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Grinsdale) |
- Parishes: Edenhall - Grinsdale
- "History of Grinsdale, in Carlisle and Cumberland | Map and description". http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=1563. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
- "Grinsdale, Cumbria". http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Town_or_Village/location.php?url=grinsdale. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
- Parishes: Edenhall – Grinsdale
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 'Parishes: Edenhall - Grinsdale' - Magna Britannia: volume 4: Cumberland (1816), pp. 100–109
- ↑ Surname Database: Grinsdale
