Barton, Cumbria

Barton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Barton and Pooley Bridge, in the Eden district of Cumbria, England. The parish is on the edge of the Lake District National Park, and had a population of 232 according to the 2001 census,[1] increasing slightly to 238 at the 2011 Census.[2] The parish includes the small hamlet of Barton, the village of Pooley Bridge and part of Ullswater. The parish was renamed from "Barton" to "Barton and Pooley Bridge" on the 1st of April 2019.[3]

Barton
St Michael's Church
Barton Location in Eden, Cumbria Barton Location within Cumbria
Population	238 (2011)
OS grid reference	NY4724
Civil parish	Barton and Pooley Bridge
District	Eden
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PENRITH
Postcode district	CA10
Dialling code	01768
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Penrith and The Border

The parish was once much bigger and included the present civil parishes of Patterdale, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge and Sockbridge and Tirril.

Etymology

Whaley suggests that 'Barton' is 'the barley farm or outlying grange', from OE 'beretūn' or, more probably, 'bærtūn', which was used of farms, especially outliers of large estates, used for storing crops." [4] OE=Old English.

See also

• Listed buildings in Barton, Cumbria

References

1. Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Eden Archived 9 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2009-11-22
2. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
3. "The Eden District Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) (Barton) Order 2019" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
4. Whaley, Diana (2006). A dictionary of Lake District place-names. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society. pp. lx, 423 p.19. ISBN 0904889726.

External links

• Cumbria County History Trust: Barton (nb: provisional research only - see Talk page)