Friends (with a capital F) and Neighbours

Information of general interest to family historians who may be researching the Quaker community of Holm Cultram or the area in general.

Friends and
Neighbours:-

Index to local Quaker families

19th Century Fieldmaps

Picture Gallery

Cumbrian Place Names

This list of Cumbrian place names with the correct local pronunciation has been compiled with the help of other family historians who subscribe to the Cumberland Mailing List @ rootsweb.

It must be emphasised that there are many local differences in Cumbrian dialect

I would like to expand this list to cover more places and also to include historic spellings and derivations. Please send me your contributions.

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Abbeytown	dialect: t'Abba
Arlecdon	ARlecdon (Often ARLton)
Aspatria	A(as in apple)-SPATE-REAH, dialect: SPAYTREE or SpeAtrie origin: From Gospatric, earl of Dunbar, father of Waldeof, first lord of Allerdale. Possibly, Ash(tree)Gospatrick
Baggrow	Bagrah
Beckermet	BecKERmet
Blackwell (area of Carlisle)	Bleckle
Borrowdale	Borradull
Brougham (Near Penrith)	Broom
Broughton-in-Furness	BROW-tun in Furnace (sometimes BRORtun)
Burgh-by-Sands	Bruff be sands
Calderbridge	CalderBRIDGE
Caldewgate area of Carlisle	Cawdigate
Calva (East of Workington)	Carver
Calvo (Near Silloth)	Calva
Carlisle	CARlayl
Cleator (Moor)	Cleeta
Cockermouth	COCKermuth
Dacre	Daker, to rhyme with Baker
Distington	DISS-intun
Egremont	locally Eggermunt
Eskdale	ESKdale, popularly ESHdl
Frizington	Frizentun
Gilcrux	GilCROOS
Gosforth	(locally) Gossfer (Goss to rhyme with boss)
Greta (River)	Greeter (NOT Greta as in Garbo)
Greysouthen	Gray SOON
Keswick	KES-ick, Cumbrians often call Derwentwater Keswick Lake
Lamplugh	LAMPla
Langwathby	Langwathbi
Lowca	LOWcer (Low rhyming with how)
Millom	MILum
Mirehouse	Myruss
Monkwray	Monkra
Moresby	Morr-us-bee
Pelutho	Pellata
Penrith	PENruth, locally known as Peerith
Raughton Head	Raffton Head
Ravenglass	RavenGLASS
Rogersceugh (Near Bowness-on-Solway)	Rogerscuff, or Rogerscew if you're posh
Rowrah	ROW (noise) rah
Sandwith (nr. St. Bees)	Sannoth
Seathwaite	Seawait
Seaville	Civil
Sebergham	SEBrum
Sellafield	SellaFIELD
Sneckyeat	Sneckyet
Stanwix, Area of Carlisle	STANicks
Thurstonfield	Thrussen-field
Torpenhow	Trapenna
-thwaite	locally pronounced thut, Waberthwaite is WOBBERthut
Ulpha	ULpha, popularly Oofer
Walton, near Brampton	Dialect:Watton
Whitehaven	White-evvn
Woodhouse (Whitehaven)	Woodus
Workington	WUKitn
Wormanby	Woremby

Thanks to recent contributors:
Barry Lawman, Helen Strickland, Betty Marshall, Christine Brown, William McAllister, Emma Jane Vernon, Rev. David Dawson, Steven Butler, Henry Stewart.

More detailed information on many of the places mentioned is available on
STEVE BULMAN'S SITE

For more on Cumbrian dialect including some audio files to download visit
The Lakeland Dialect Society Website

Field Maps

These maps, which probably date from around 1865, show the occupiers of fields, farms and cottages between Dubmill and Beckfoot.
They may have been prepared for a valuation survey but nobody, including the staff at the County Records Office in Carlisle, is very sure. Suggestions would be welcome. Family names included on each map are listed in the table.

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WARNING These are large files and may take some time to download.

ACREDALE MILL
Barnes, Calvert, Farren, Harrison, Jennings, Law, Miller, Minnican, Reay, Saul, Sim, Tordiff, Younghusband

ACREDALE COMMON
Barwise, Harrison, Holliday, Jennings, Law, Miller, Parker, Reay, Saul, Sim, Tordiff, Wilkinson, Wise, Wood, Younghusband.

BECKFOOT 1
Backhouse, Bell, Biglands, Hayton, Holliday, Saul, Steel, Wilkinson

BECKFOOT 2
Atkinson, Barnes, Bell, Biglands, Mordant.

COWGATE
Barwise, Glaister, Holliday, Longcake, Osborne, Osmotherley, Ostle

SMALL FIELDS NEAR COWGATE
Barnes, Barwise, Chambers, Holliday, Longcake, Miller, Osmotherley, Ostle, Pearson, Postlethwaite, Saul, Sim, Terrels, Wilson, Wise

DUBMILL AND SALTA
Brown, Fearon, Ostle, Sim, Thompson, Wilson, Wise.

LOWSAY
Barwise, Bendle, Chambers, Gustavus(?), Holliday, Dr. Lawmass, Ostle, Pape, Parish Land, Richmond, Spark, Wilson, Wise.

MAWBRAY VILLAGE
Barnes, Bishop, Chambers, Hailforth, Holliday, Longcake, Miller, Ostle, Pearson.

MAWBRAY BANK
Barnes, Barwise & Bone, Blackburn, Chambers, Holliday, Longcake, Miller, Ostle.

MAWBRAY HAYRIGG
Barnes, Barwise, Biglands, Carver, Holliday, Miller, Longcake, Mordant, Ostle, Sim, Thurlow, Williamson.

NEWTOWN
Atkinson, Barnes, Bell, Biglands, Glaister, Holliday, Mordant, Osborne, Osmotherley, Ostle, Saul, Sim

NEWTOWN BANK AND NOOK
Atkinson, Barnes, Barwise, Biglands, Glaister, Mordant, Osmotherley, Ostle, Sim.

Friends (with a capital F) and Neighbours

Cumbrian Place Names

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Field Maps

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