Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Hesket Newmarket

Hesket Newmarket

civil parish:-

Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

locality type:-

market town

locality type:-

selected place

coordinates:-

NY34073863 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY3438

10Km square:-

NY33

latitude; longitude:-

3d 1.5m W; 54d 44.3m N

BOS73.jpg (taken 1.3.2008)
photograph

BLR41.jpg (taken 9.3.2006)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 38 13)
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd)
placename:- Heskett

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.

MD12NY33.jpg
"Heskett"
Circle.
item:- JandMN : 90
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evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

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"HESKET Newmarket"
blocks, and usually a church, labelled in upright lowercase; a village and a house
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

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"HESKET Newmarket"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase; a village, street plan with blocks and a house
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Bailey 1797
placename:- Hesket

source data:-

Map, soil etc, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, by J Bailey, engraved by Neele, Strand, published by Messrs Robinson, Paternoster Row and G Nicol, Pall Mall, London, 1797.

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BY04.jpg
"Hesket"
group of blocks; town
item:- Armitt Library : A680.2
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evidence:-

old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:- Hesket New Market

source data:-

Map, Cumberland, scale about 15.5 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.

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GRA1Cd.jpg
"Hesket New Market"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality
item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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evidence:-

old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5 miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.

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GRA1Lk.jpg
"Hesket Newmarket"
blocks, upright lowercase text; town
item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5
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evidence:-

old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.

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Lw18.jpg
"Hesket Newmarket 296¾"
market town; distance from London
item:- private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-

old text:- Capper 1808
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.

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"..."
"HESKET NEWMARKET, a hamlet in the parish of Colbeck, in Allerdale ward, below Derwent, Cumberland, 12 miles from Penrith, and 298 from London. Population included with Colbeck."
"..."

evidence:-

old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, drawn and engraved by Cooper, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.

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COP3.jpg
"Hesket Newmarket"
circle with two side bars; town
item:- JandMN : 86
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evidence:-

old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd)
placename:- Hesket New Market

source data:-

Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho, London, 1810.

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WL13.jpg
"Hesket New Market"
village, hamlet, house, ...
item:- Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Hesket

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.

OT02NY33.jpg
"HESKET"
item:- JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Hall 1820 (Cmd)
placename:- Hesket

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Sidney Hall, published by S Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.

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"Hesket / 296"
circle, upright lowercase text; town; distance from London
item:- JandMN : 91
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evidence:-

descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
placename:- Hesket
item:- geology

source data:-

Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.

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Page 161:- "A superincumbent bed of limestone, by some called the mountain, by others the upper transition limestone, mantles round these mountains, in a position unconformable to the strata of the slaty and other rocks upon which it reposes. It bassets out near ... Caldbeck, Hesket, Berrier, ..."
"..."

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Page 163:- "... and a thin seam of coal has been found interstratified with the limestone at Hesket Newmarket; ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Cobbett 1832
placename:- Hesket

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 20 miles to 1 inch, by William Cobbett, 11 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London, 1832.

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COB5.jpg
"Hesket"
dot and circle; town
item:- JandMN : 117
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evidence:-

descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
placename:- Hesket New Market

source data:-

Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.

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Page 95:- "... A wild brook washes across the road, and with the wooden bridge for foot-passen-"

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Page 96:- "[foot-passen]gers and the little cascade below, is a pleasing feature at the entrance of the neat little town of Hesket-New-Market, agreeably seated in the open vale. The Old Hall, much modernized, stands on the right as you leave the town for Caldbeck."
"This is a large straggling village; the houses seem to have been dropped down without order or connexion over the wide rambling valley at the foot of High Pike and Carrick. ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

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"HESKET NEWMARKET"
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.

GAR2NY33.jpg
"Hesket Newmarket"
blocks, settlement
item:- JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-

old text:- Dickens 1857

source data:-

Book, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, by Charles Dickens, 1857.

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Page 8:- "..."
"Scenting the morning air more pleasantly than the buried majesty of Denmark did, Messrs. Idle and Goodchild rode away from Carlisle at eight o'clock one forenoon, bound for the village of Heske, Newmarket, some fourteen miles distant. Goodchild (who had already begun to doubt whether he was idle: as his way always is when he has nothing to do), had read of a certain black old Cumberland hill or mountain, called Carrock, or Carrock Fell; and had arrived at the conclusion that it would be the culminating triumph of Idleness to ascend the same. Thomas Idle, dwelling on the pains inseparable from that achievement, had expressed the strongest doubts of the expediency, and even of the sanity, of the enterprise; but Goodchild had carried his point, and they rode away."
"Up hill and down hill, and twisting to the right, and twisting to the left, and with old Skiddaw (who has vaunted himself a great deal more than his merits deserve; but that is rather the way of the Lake country), dodging the apprentices in a picturesque and pleasant manner. Good, weather-proof, warm pleasant houses, well white-limed, scantily dotting the road. Clean children coming out to look, carrying other clean children as big as themselves. Harvest still lying out and much rained upon; here and there, harvest still unreaped. Well cultivated gardens attached to the cottages, with plenty of produce forced out of their hard soil. Lonely nooks, and wild; but people can be born, and married, and buried in such nooks, and can live and love, and be loved, there as elsewhere, thank God! (Mr. Goodchild's remark.) By-and-by, the village. Black, coarse-stoned, rough-windowed houses; some with outer staircases,"

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Page 9:- "like Swiss houses; a sinuous and stony gutter winding up hill and round the corner, by way of street. All the children running out directly. Women pausing in washing, to peep from doorways and very little windows. Such were the observations of Messrs. Idle and Goodchild, as their conveyance stopped at the village shoemaker's. Old Carrock gloomed down upon it all in a very ill-tempered state; and rain was beginning."
"The village shoemaker declined to have anything to do with Carrock. No visitors went up Carrock. No visitors came there at all. Aa' the world ganged awa' yon. The driver appealed to the Innkeeper. The Innkeeper, had two men working in the fields, and one of them should be called in, to go up Carrock as guide. Messrs. Idle and Goodchild, highly approving, entered the Innkeeper's house, to drink whiskey and eat oatcake."
"..."

evidence:-

old print:- Bradley 1901
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Print, uncoloured lithograph, Hesket Newmarket, near Caldbeck, Cumberland, by Joseph Pennell, published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1901.

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On page 248 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley.
printed at bottom:- "Hesket Newmarket, near Caldbeck."
item:- JandMN : 464.65
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evidence:-

old print:- Bradley 1901
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Print, uncoloured lithograph, Market Place, Hesket Newmarket, near Caldbeck, Cumberland, by Joseph Pennell, published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1901.

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BRL166.jpg
On page 253 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley.
printed at bottom:- "Market Place, Hesket Newmarket."
item:- JandMN : 464.66
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evidence:-

old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913)
placename:- Hesket New Market

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.

PST2NY33.jpg
"HESKET NEW MARKET"
dots, roads
item:- JandMN : 162.2
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evidence:-

old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.

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"Hesket Newmarket"
map date 1909

evidence:-

old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:- Hesket Newmarket

source data:-

Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.

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PF10Cm.jpg
"Hesket Newmarket"
map date 1892

evidence:-

old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:- Hasket Newmarket

source data:-

Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.

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POF2Cm.jpg
"Hasket Newmarket"
map date 1890

images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

hearsay:-

Once had a market and sheep and cattle fairs.

hearsay:-

Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins stayed here, 1857. Dickens wrote The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, published in Household Words, describing the area and a walk up Carrock Fell.

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