Parish Data

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  An ancient parish in Leath ward, Cumberland, including the townships of High and Low Hesket (which included the village of Armathwaite), Calthwaite, Plumpton Street, Itonfield and Petteril Crooks .
  Armathwaite, Christ and St Mary’s church, was originally a chapel of ease to Hesket in the Forest prior to the 17th century, it fell into disrepair and was rebuilt in about 1660 and today is almost exactly as built.
  Hesket in the Forest, St. Mary the Virgin was originally built about 1530, but rebuilt in 1678 and again in 1760.
  
  

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