Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWTON-ARLOSH

NEWTON-ARLOSH, a village and a chapelry in Holme-Cultram parish, Cumberland. The village stands near Morecambe bay, Abbey r. station, and Abbeytown villages; was once a market-town; and has remains of a fortified church, built about 1303. The chapelry is conterminate with Holme-East-Waver township. Post-town, Abbeytown, under Carlisle. Real property, £4, 699. Pop., 526. Houses, 98. The living is a p.curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £117.* Patron, the Vicar of Holme-Cultram.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Cumberland Ancient County
Place: Newton Arlosh

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