Shap Rural

	Shap Rural Shap Rural is a very large, but sparsely populated, civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria in England, covering part of the Lake District National Park. It had a population of 119 in 2001, 130 at the 2011 Census, and 110 in 2021. Within the parish are the hamlet (place), hamlets and settlements of Wet Sleddale, Hardendale and Swindale, most of the Shap Fells range and the reservoirs of Haweswater Reservoir, Haweswater (part) and Wet Sleddale Reservoir, Wet Sleddale. The village of Mardale, Mardale Green, which disappeared when Haweswater was converted into a reservoir in the 1930s, was in the parish. The parish was created in 1904 with the splitting of the former civil parish of Shap into urban and rural parts. Shap Urban, (since 1935 just Shap), was administered by an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district council from 1905 to 1935. Shap and Shap Rural today have a joint Parish councils in England, parish c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Shap Abbey Shap Abbey was a religious house of the Premonstratensian order of Canons regular situated on the western bank of the River Lowther in the civil parish of Shap Rural, around from the village of Shap, in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. The site is in the care of English Heritage and managed on its behalf by the Lake District National Park. History Although the present Shap Abbey was built in 1199, the monastic community was founded on another site 20 miles south near Kendal in 1190, but it moved to the present site, then called 'Hepp', in 1199. The old name meant 'a heap' but it gradually assumed the present-day name "Shap" over the next 100 years. One of the abbots was the impressive Richard Redman (bishop), Richard Redman (died 1505), later successively Bishop of St Asaph (c. 1471), Bishop of Exeter (1495), and Bishop of Ely (1501). He is remembered by a magnificent funeral monument in Ely Cathedral Shap Abbey escaped the initial phase of the Dissolution of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Urban District (Great Britain And Ireland) In England and Wales, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected urban district council (UDC), which shared local government responsibilities with a county council. In England and Wales, urban districts and rural districts were created in 1894 by the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) as subdivisions of administrative counties. A similar model of urban and rural districts was also established in Ireland in 1899, which continued separately in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after 1921. They replaced the earlier system of urban and rural sanitary districts (based on poor law unions) whose functions were taken over by the district councils. The district councils also had wider powers over local matters such as parks, cemeteries and local planning. An urban district usually contained a single parish, while a rural district might contain many. Urban districts were considere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Listed Buildings In Shap Rural Shap Rural is a civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It contains eleven listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish is almost entirely rural, and the listed buildings consist of farm houses and farm buildings, three bridges, a lime kiln A lime kiln is a kiln used for the calcination of limestone (calcium carbonate) to produce the form of lime called ''quicklime'' (calcium oxide). The chemical equation for this reaction is: CaCO3 + heat → CaO + CO2 This reaction can tak ..., and a monument. __NOTOC__ Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shap Rural Lists of listed buildings in Cumbria Shap Rural, list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]