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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hesket Newmarket like this:
HESKET-NEWMARKET, a small town in Caldbeck parish, Cumberland; on the river Caldew, under Caldeckfell, 7½ miles NNW of Penruddock r. station, and 9 SE of Wigton. It has a post office under Wigton; is of modern date; was held by the Lawsons; contains a neat town hall, an old mansion, and a Quakers' chapel; and stands amid environs of picturesque and romantic character, with rocks containing much lead ore and some copper, molybdena, and manganese. ...
A weekly market is held on Friday; fairs for cattle are held on every Friday from the beginning of May till Whitsuntide; and fairs for sheep are held on the last Thursday of Aug. and the 2d of Oct.
Hesket Newmarket is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hesket Newmarket itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hesket Newmarket in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21460
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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