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HENSINGHAM, a village and a chapelry in St. Bees parish, Cumberland. The village stands on a rising ground, 1 mile SE of Whitehaven r. station; has a postoffice under Whitehaven; and conducts some trade in linen thread, linen fabrics, and ropes. The chapelry comprises 956 acres. Real property, £5, 420. Pop. in 1851, 1, 336; in 1861, 1, 538. Houses, 314. Hensingham House was the seat of the Senhouses. Limestone is extensively quarried and calcined. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £126.* Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is modern; and there are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and a national school. Archbishop Grindall was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Hensingham CP/Ch St Bees AP/CP Cumberland AncC |
| Place: | Hensingham |
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