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How Mill railway station
How Mill was a railway station which served the village of The How, near Brampton in Cumbria. The station was closed on 5 January 1959, four years before the Beeching Axe. The How was on one side of the station, almost a mile away, while the Mill was on the other side. The Mill was a sawmill and a house where the family lived who own the Mill. A level crossing was in place in the early 1940s.
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How, Cumbria
How is a hamlet in the English county of Cumbria.
How is located eight miles due east of the city of Carlisle, to the south of Hayton. There are many hotels in Cumbria with How in the name. The name How is derived from the Old Norse word haugr meaning hill or mound.
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Fenton, Cumbria
Fenton is a small village in the Cumberland district, in the English county of Cumbria. It is near the small town of Brampton.
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Hayton, Carlisle
Hayton is a small village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, roughly 8 miles (13 km) east of Carlisle, and 10 miles (16 km) from the England/Scotland border. The population of the parish taken at the 2011 census was 2,222.
The place name Hayton means hay farm and refers to the former farming in the area. There is a separate settlement named Hayton within Cumbria near Aspatria. St. Mary Magdalene Church was built in 1780. In the church are a number of memorials to the Graham family of Edmond Castle. Edmond Castle, a mile from the village, is thought to date from earlier than the 17th century. The nearby Toppin Castle farmhouse is a nineteenth-century imitation tower house.
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Faugh, Cumbria
Faugh is a small village situated to the East of the city of Carlisle and within 15 minutes of the Scottish Border. The village has always been English however the land of Cumberland was once Scottish with The String of Horses Inn pre-dating the Jacobites rising (1660).