Longcroft, Cumberland
| Longcroft | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
.jpg) A house in Longcroft | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY214581 |
| Location: | 54°54’43"N, 3°13’34"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Wigton |
| Postcode: | CA7 |
| Dialling code: | 016973 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Workington |
Longcroft is a small community in Cumberland nestled in between Kirkbride and Anthorn. The village contains only five houses, one of which is Longcroft Farm, a dairy farm. The marsh at the bottom of the lands has been used in film documentaries, as it is the reckoned to be only place in Cumberland where there is not "background pollution".
Isold Isabel de Longcroft (born about 1107, Longcroft) wed, in 1128, Lord Odard de Loges (alias Logis; born 1095 in the Highlands), who was made Earl of Wigton by King Henry I. The couple had two sons, Baron Adam de Wigton (born in Wigton in 1129) and Baron Gilbert de Wigton (born in Wigton in about 1130).[1]
The de Wigton and de Kirkbride families intermarried in 1286, when Sir Richard de Kirkbride married Christina de Wigton in Kirkbride; the couple had two sons:
- Walter de Kirkbride (1287–1336), who married Alice de Bourdon in 1313
- John de Kirkbride (1295–1327)
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