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The Cumbria County History Trust (CCHT) was launched in May 2010 to coordinate and gather resources for the Victoria County History of Cumbria project, a collaborative community project created to research and write the histories of all parts of Cumbria, and to make historical information generally available, within the framework and standards of the Victoria County History of England.

General
The aim of CCHT is to initiate a step-change in the awareness and understanding of Cumbria’s local historical heritage, by harnessing the enthusiasm for local history which exists widely across Cumbria, and pooling expertise. Its ultimate aim is to write the history of every town and village in England. To date, a team of over 100 volunteers from across Cumbria has compiled brief histories, called Jubilee Digests Jubilee Digests for each of the 340 parishes/townships in the county, using the Civil Parishes as they existed around 1900, forming a springboard for future work. In addition a smaller core of volunteers has embarked on researching and writing full parish/township histories, in the standard style of the Victoria County History, which will eventually form part of the national work of local historical reference. Completed Draft Histories

Early Work
No VCH town or village histories had been published for the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland before the VCH Cumbria project was launched in 2010; the only parts of Cumbria previously to have been researched in detail by the VCH were those parts which were formerly in Lancashire. The story of the early attempts to publish a VCH for Cumberland and Westmorland has been told by John Beckett in a paper in the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and archaeological Society, New Series, vol XI, (2011) pp.207-225 [Sarah – can we try to get pdf of this paper to post here – and on our site?] http://cumbriapast.com/cgi-bin/ms/main.pl?action=transactions

Lancashire
The Furness and Cartmel areas (Lonsdale North of the Sands) were covered in VCH Lancashire, Volume VIII (published in 1910) [link to http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/counties/lancashire/volumes/lancashire-vol-viii-0]

Cumberland
Two introductory volumes were published in the early twentieth century, Volume 1 (1901), which covered Early Man, Pre-Norman Remains, Introduction to and Texts of the Cumberland Domesday, Early Pipe Rolls, and Testa de Nevill [link to http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/counties/cumberland/volumes/cumberland-i and Volume II (1905) which covered Political History, Industries, Sport Ancient and Modern, Forestry http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/counties/cumberland/volumes/cumberland-ii

Westmorland
Nothing has been published to date

Jubilee Digests
The Jubilee Digests are so named after the Queen’s Jubilee, as they were launched in 2012. All 340 Digests are accessible through an interactive map or search engine on the CCHT website.



The aim of the Jubilee Digests is to summarise aspects of each community’s history from the earliest times to the present day, in a standard format, using a limited set of specified sources.

Each ‘Jubilee Digest’ contains the following information:

Name of place: status (i.e. whether ancient parish, township or chapelry); parish, ward and historic county in which it lay; modern local government boundary changes

Acreage of administrative unit and extent of common moor or fell, with date of enclosure

Population: overview of number of inhabitants from 1801 to 2001

Landownership: summary of manorial descent (if known); other major estates (if known)

Economic activity other than farming (i.e. mines, quarries, manufacturing, markets etc)

Places of worship both Established Church and nonconformist

Schools and other institutions, such as libraries, almshouses, village halls

Completed Draft Histories
The following full parish/township histories have been completed in draft form and can be accessed and downloaded from the CCHT website.

MOSSER RENWICK SKELSMERGH

Resources
In addition to the Jubilee Digests and Draft Histories, CCHT has made available a full transcript of Cumbrian Census figures from 1801 to 2001, by ward

The CCHT website also contains a range of images available for download, including photographs of all the townships covered by the Jubilee Digests, plus images taken from:

Hutchinson's History of the County of Cumberland, Vol 1 1794

Sketches and photographs from sketchbook compiled by Joseph Hall (1839-1899) of Parkgate, Waverton: Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle, DX 1065/50

Aqua-tints and engravings from Thomas West's "A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire", 6th edn, 1796

Aqua-tints and engravings from Thomas West's "A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire", 6th edn, 1796

Illustrations by A Reginald Smith from W G Collingwood 'The Lake Counties', (New Edition 1932)

Old Maps of Cumbria Gallery: extracts of old printed maps showing Cumbria. All the maps illustrated are in private ownership and there are no copyright restrictions on their use

Engravings from Thomas Pennant's Tour from Downing to Alston Moor 1801



[right hand matter – illustrate with one of the maps eg http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/gallery/old-maps-cumbria-gallery