Tallentire is a village and former

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, now in the parish of Bridekirk, in the

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district of

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, England. It is about north of

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. The village is located just outside the

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. In 1931 the parish had a population of 184.

Etymology

The name ''Tallentire'' is one of Brittonic origins. The first element ''tāl'' means "brow, front, end", and the terminal element ''*tīr'' means "land" ( Welsh ''tâl'' and ''tir''). Unusually, "Tallentire" appears to contain a

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in the form of ''-en'', leading to the proposition that ''* �n'' was a definite article in the Brittonic of the North, although ''ï ' (Welsh ''y''; see Penyghent,

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) is considerably more common. The meaning of the name may be "end of the land".A. D. Mills, ''A Dictionary of English Place Names'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), s.v.

Governance

Tallentire is part of the Penrith and Solway constituency for

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. For

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purposes it's in the

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area. It was previously part of the ''Broughton St Bridget's''

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of Allerdale Borough Council. This ward stretched north to Bridekirk with a total population at the 2011 Census of 4,178. Tallentire was part of the ''Dearham and Broughton'' Ward of

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. Tallentire was formerly a

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in Bridekirk parish, from 1866 Tallentire was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1934 and merged with Bridekirk.

References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Tallentire
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) Villages in Cumbria Former civil parishes in Cumbria Bridekirk {{Cumbria-geo-stub