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Little Salkeld

Village in Cumbria, England

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
official_name	Little Salkeld
static_image	Little Salkeld Flour Mill - geograph.org.uk - 50094.jpg
static_image_caption	Little Salkeld Flour Mill
static_image_2_name	Little salkeld.JPG
static_image_2_caption	General view of village
civil_parish	Hunsonby
unitary_england	Westmorland and Furness
lieutenancy_england	Cumbria
region	North West England
constituency_westminster	Penrith and Solway
post_town	PENRITH
postcode_district	CA10
postcode_area	CA
dial_code	01768
os_grid_reference	NY566359
pushpin_map	United Kingdom Eden
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Eden, Cumbria

Little Salkeld is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hunsonby, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, a few miles to the north east of Penrith. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 91.

History

The manor at Little Salkeld was confirmed by King Edward I in 1292. It is believed to be the original home of the Salkeld family of landowners.

Little Salkeld was formerly a township in Addingham parish, from 1866 Little Salkeld was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1934 and merged with Hunsonby and Winskill to create Hunsonby.

Places of interest

Little Salkeld Watermill, built in 1745, is a traditional English 18th-century water mill.

Salkeld Hall is the village's largest house; built in the 16th century incorporating earlier walls. It is privately owned.

The village contains a vicarage but no church - it was built for Addingham parish church one mile to the north near Glassonby.

Popular with walkers – it is the closest village to Lacy's Caves and Long Meg and Her Daughters.

Transport

Little Salkeld can be reached by car 1½ miles from Langwathby off the A686, approximately 6 miles from M6 J40.

It lies on the C2C Cycle Route.

Little Salkeld railway station on the Settle-Carlisle Railway and branch line to the Long Meg Mine were both closed in the 1970s, although the disused platforms still remain and the station building is well maintained as a private house. The closest station is . In 1918 the Little Salkeld rail accident in nearby Long Meg Cutting killed seven people. A second accident occurred at the station in 1933, which resulted in the death of one railwayman and injuries to a further five members of railway staff and thirty passengers.

The village is believed to have been connected at one time by a bridge over the River Eden to Great Salkeld.

References

"Population Statistics Little Salkeld Tn/CP through time". Vision of Britain.
(1816). "Parishes: Addingham - Aspatria". [[Magna Britannia]].
"History of Little Salkeld, in Eden and Cumberland". A Vision of Britain through Time.
"Relationships and changes Little Salkeld Tn/CP through time". Vision of Britain.
[http://www.organicmill.co.uk/index2.html Little Salkeld Watermill web site] {{webarchive. link. (2 January 2007)
[http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/litsalk.htm Little Salkeld Watermill], Article on Visit Cumbria {{webarchive. link. (4 March 2013)
"English Heritage PastScape monument number 12238".

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