VCH Shorts
Kirkoswald and Renwick
Kirkoswald and Renwick is the first parish history to be produced by the Cumbria County History Trust in collaboration with Lancaster University for the Victoria County History of Cumbria. Covering 30 square miles of agricultural land and moorland, the modern civil parish of Kirkoswald lies between the river Eden and the Pennine heights, on the western edge of the North Pennine Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Kirkoswald township, anciently a market and small industrial centre, lies nine miles north east of Penrith.
Other Publication
Cumbria: An Historical Gazetteer
Cumbria: An Historical Gazetteer has been published by the Regional Heritage Centre at Lancaster University in association with the Cumbria County History Trust. It contains short summaries of historical information about every community in Cumbria. Arranged alphabetically, it provides information about population, landownership, local economic history, places of worship, schools and other community institutions across the centuries.
The Gazetteer is based on the 'Jubilee Digests' that were produced by a large team of volunteer local historians who compiled short parish and township histories for the project website using a checklist of key sources. These have now been edited by Angus J. L. Winchester for publication ensuring accuracy and consistency.
The book was edited by Angus J. L. Winchester, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Lancaster University. He was the Director of the Victoria County History of Cumbria project from its inception in 2010 until his retirement in 2016.
It provides coverage of the modern county of Cumbria, containing an article for each of the 348 civil parishes as they existed in the 1890s. The Gazetteer is an encyclopaedic work of reference and will be of interest to all those concerned with the history of Cumberland and Westmorland.
