| Main | Births etc |
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| Barton | |
 The Crown Inn at Pooley Bridge |
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 Barton Barton shown within Cumbria | |
| Population | 232 (2001) |
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| OS grid reference | |
| Parish | Barton |
| 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 |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
| UK Parliament | Penrith and The Border |
| List of places: UK • England • Cumbria | |
Barton is a hamlet and civil parish 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] It includes the small hamlet of Barton and the village of Pooley Bridge. The parish includes part of Ullswater.
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." [2] OE=Old English.
See also[]
- St Michael's Church, Barton
References[]
- ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Eden Retrieved 2009-11-22
- ^ 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)
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