Barton and Pooley Bridge is a
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in
Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Cumbria, England. The economy is mainly focused on tourism around both the Lake District and Cumbria Coast, shipbuilding and the Royal Port of Barrow, Royal ...
,
Cumbria
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, England. The parish is on the edge of the
Lake District
The Lake District, also known as ''the Lakes'' or ''Lakeland'', is a mountainous region and National parks of the United Kingdom, national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and mou ...
National Park, and had a population of 232 according to the 2001 census, increasing slightly to 238 at the 2011 Census.
The parish includes the village of
Pooley Bridge
Pooley Bridge is a village in the Westmorland and Furness of the northwestern English county of Cumbria, within the traditional borders of Westmorland.
The village takes its name from a bridge over the River Eamont at the northern end of Ul ...
, the small hamlet of
Barton, and part of
Ullswater
Ullswater is a glacial lake in Cumbria, England and part of the Lake District National Park. It is the second largest lake in the region by both area and volume, after Windermere. The lake is about long, wide, and has a maximum depth of . I ...
, and extends south as far as
Loadpot Hill. It has an area of and a 2011 population density of 14/sqkm (36/sqmi).
The parish was renamed from "Barton" to "Barton and Pooley Bridge" on 1 April 2019.
The parish was once much bigger and included the present civil parishes of
Patterdale
Patterdale (Saint Patrick's Dale) is a small village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is in the eastern part of the Lake District, and the name is also used for the long valley in which the villa ...
,
Yanwath and Eamont Bridge and
Sockbridge and Tirril.
Etymology
Whaley suggests that 'Barton' is 'the barley farm or outlying grange', from OE 'beretūn' or, more probably, 'bærtūn', which was used of farms, especially outliers of large estates, used for storing crops."
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Old English
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.
Governance
The parish has a
parish council, the lowest tier of local government.
It was in the Askham
ward
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Division or unit
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of
Eden District
Eden was a local government district in Cumbria, England, based at Penrith Town Hall in Penrith. It was named after the River Eden, which flowed north through the district toward Carlisle. Its population of 49,777 at the 2001 census, increa ...
until 2023. It is within the parliamentary constituency of
Westmorland and Lonsdale
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Westmorland and Lonsdale is the Lib ...
.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Barton and Pooley Bridge
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Barton(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Barton and Pooley Bridge Parish Council website*
Civil parishes in Cumbria
Westmorland and Furness
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