In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Calder Bridge like this:
CALDER-BRIDGE, a village and a chapelry in Ponsonby parish, Cumberland. The village stands on the Calder river, 1¼ mile NNE of Sellafield r. station, and 4 SE by S of Egremont; and has a post office under Whitehaven, and two inns. The chapelry includes the village; and is a p. curacy, annexed to Beckermet-St. ...
Bridget, in the diocese of Carlisle. The church was built in 1842, and is a cruciform structure, in the early English style, with a pinnacled tower. Ponsonby Hall, the seat of J. E. Stanley, Esq., is in the southern vicinity of the village; and Calder Abbey, the seat of Captain Irwin, adjoins abbey ruins, on the left bank of the river, about a mile above. The abbey was founded, in 1134, by Ranulph, second Earl of Chester, for Cistertian monks; became a dependency of the Abbey of Furness; and was given, at the dissolution, to Thomas Leigh. A large portion of its church, in mingled Norman and early English, with the central tower, and richly robed in parasitic plants, still stands. Vestiges of a Roman camp are on the opposite side of the river.
Calder Bridge through time
Calder Bridge is now part of Copeland district. Click here for graphs and data of how Copeland has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Calder Bridge itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Calder Bridge, in Copeland and Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20695
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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