Stainton with Adgarley is a small village in

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...

, England. It is situated about 5 miles from

Dalton-in-Furness Dalton-in-Furness is a town in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, north east of Barrow-in-Furness. Along with the rest of the Furness peninsula, it was historically part of Lancashire. It is in the parish of Dalton Town with Newton, a ...

. It is a small farming community and is served by the Urswick Bardsea and Stainton Parish Council. There were once two villages, ''Stainton'' and ''Adgarley''. The Stainton name comes from the original ''Steintun''. Adgarley was once called ''Eadgarlith''. Each has its own village green. It contains a limestone quarry called Stainton Quarry, worked since before 1900.

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Cumbria County History Trust: Urswick
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) Villages in Cumbria Westmorland and Furness {{Cumbria-geo-stub