Little Salkeld
{{Short description|Village in Cumbria, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|54.7165|-2.6730|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Little Salkeld
| static_image = Little Salkeld Flour Mill - geograph.org.uk - 50094.jpg
| static_image_caption = Little Salkeld Flour Mill
| static_image_2_name = Little salkeld.JPG
| static_image_2_caption = General view of village
| civil_parish = Hunsonby
|unitary_england= Westmorland and Furness
|lieutenancy_england= Cumbria
| region = North West England
| constituency_westminster = Penrith and Solway
| post_town = PENRITH
| postcode_district = CA10
| postcode_area = CA
| dial_code = 01768
| os_grid_reference = NY566359
| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Eden
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Eden, Cumbria
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Little Salkeld is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hunsonby, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, a few miles to the north east of Penrith. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 91.{{cite web|url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10119522/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population Statistics Little Salkeld Tn/CP through time|publisher=Vision of Britain|accessdate=25 November 2018}}
History
The manor at Little Salkeld was confirmed by King Edward I in 1292. It is believed to be the original home of the Salkeld family of landowners.{{citation |title=Parishes: Addingham - Aspatria|journal=Magna Britannia|volume=4: Cumberland|date=1816|pages=4–18|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50677|accessdate=3 January 2007}}
Little Salkeld was formerly a township in Addingham parish,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3790|title=History of Little Salkeld, in Eden and Cumberland|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=30 December 2021}} from 1866 Little Salkeld was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1934 and merged with Hunsonby and Winskill to create Hunsonby.{{cite web|url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10119522|title=Relationships and changes Little Salkeld Tn/CP through time|publisher=Vision of Britain|accessdate=25 November 2018}}
Places of interest
Little Salkeld Watermill, built in 1745, is a traditional English 18th-century water mill.[http://www.organicmill.co.uk/index2.html Little Salkeld Watermill web site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070102040402/http://www.organicmill.co.uk/index2.html |date=2 January 2007 }}[http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/litsalk.htm Little Salkeld Watermill], Article on Visit Cumbria {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304180312/http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/litsalk.htm |date=4 March 2013 }}
Salkeld Hall is the village's largest house; built in the 16th century incorporating earlier walls.{{Cite web |url=http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.asp?hob_no=12238 |title=English Heritage PastScape monument number 12238 |access-date=3 January 2007 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712110846/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.asp?hob_no=12238 |archive-date=12 July 2012 |url-status=dead }} It is privately owned.
The village contains a vicarage but no church - it was built for Addingham parish church one mile to the north near Glassonby.
Popular with walkers – it is the closest village to Lacy's Caves and Long Meg and Her Daughters.
Transport
Little Salkeld can be reached by car 1½ miles from Langwathby off the A686, approximately 6 miles from M6 J40.
It lies on the C2C Cycle Route.
Little Salkeld railway station on the Settle-Carlisle Railway and branch line to the Long Meg Mine were both closed in the 1970s, although the disused platforms still remain and the station building is well maintained as a private house. The closest station is {{rws|Langwathby}}. In 1918 the Little Salkeld rail accident in nearby Long Meg Cutting killed seven people. A second accident occurred at the station in 1933, which resulted in the death of one railwayman and injuries to a further five members of railway staff and thirty passengers.
The village is believed to have been connected at one time by a bridge over the River Eden to Great Salkeld.
See also
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References
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External links
{{Commons category|Little Salkeld}}
- [http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/little-salkeld Cumbria County History Trust: Little Salkeld] (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
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