Little Musgrave

Little Musgrave is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Musgrave, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. In 1891 the parish had a population of 52.

1. Location

The village is situated at 500 ft above sea level in the upper reaches of the Eden Valley just south of the Eden River and two and one-half miles west-south-west of Brough. The village lies within the historic county of Westmorland.

1. History

Little Musgrave was formerly a township in Crosby-Garret parish, from 1866 Little Musgrave was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 30 December 1894 and merged with "Great Musgrave" to form "Musgrave".

1. Notable residents

William Edmundson (1627—1712), founder of the Quaker faith in Ireland.

1. See also

Listed buildings in Musgrave, Cumbria Musgrave railway station

1. References


1. External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Musgrave (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)

1. Location grid

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Musgrave, Cumbria

Musgrave is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It has a population of 152, and contains the villages of Little Musgrave and Great Musgrave. At the 2011 Census, data for Helbeck was included with Musgrave giving a total population of 165.

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Musgrave railway station

Musgrave railway station was a railway station situated on the Eden Valley Railway and located between Penrith and Kirkby Stephen East, England.

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Great Musgrave

Great Musgrave is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Musgrave, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is about a mile west of Brough. In 1891 the parish had a population of 175. Great Musgrave sits atop a hill near the River Eden and Swindale Beck. Its location provides views over the vale of Eden and the nearby northern Pennines. The village name comes from the Musgrave family who lived here.

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River Belah

The River Belah is a river in the county of Cumbria in England. Its name derives from the Old English word Belge and means the "Roaring River". The Belah is formed by the confluence of several small streams or sikes draining most of north and south Stainmore close to the border with County Durham and Yorkshire. It flows north west off the hillside as Bleaberry Beck and tumbles over many waterfalls before meeting the Stow Gill Becks and becoming the Belah. It then flows in a north westerly direction past Oxenthwaite where the river is swollen by Argill Beck at Field Head and the Powbrand Beck near Thorney Scale. Having washed by Brough Sowerby, the Belah combines its waters with those of the River Eden near to the village of Great Musgrave. The Stainmore Railway crossed the river on the huge iron-girder lattice Belah Viaduct, before it was demolished in 1964. It was the highest bridge in England, at 196 feet (60 m) high.

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