Great Salkeld

Great Salkeld is a small village and civil parish in the Eden District of Cumbria, England, a few miles to the north east of Penrith and bordering the River Eden.

Great Salkeld

St Cuthbert's Church
Great Salkeld
Location in Eden, Cumbria
Great Salkeld
Location within Cumbria
Population412 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceNY5536
Civil parish
  • Great Salkeld
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPENRITH
Postcode districtCA11
Dialling code01768
PoliceCumbria
FireCumbria
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament

The village is believed to have been connected at one time by a bridge over the River Eden to Little Salkeld. In the Middle Ages, the village was sometimes referred to in documents as Salkeld Regis as it was at times the property of the Crown.

Description

It is a linear village with a fine ensemble of vernacular buildings built in the attractive local red sandstone. The village's amenities are few, but include a village hall, a pub "The Highland Drove", which has won many awards for its food, and an Anglican church. Occupying an imposing central position in the village, St Cuthbert's Church is a fortified church that was built in the 12th century, and is remarkable for the strong defensive pele tower which was added to it circa 1380. The tower room is tunnel-vaulted and the upper floor has a fireplace to make it habitable, and a doorway into the nave. A formidable yett, a door with interlaced iron bars, guards access to the tower. The Norman doorway to the church has similar features to that at St Bees Priory, with head masks incorporated into the zig-zag pattern. The chancel and arch were restored in 1866.[2] There are six bells hung for full-circle ringing.[3]

The yett or iron-barred door guarding the tower at St Cuthbert's Church, Great Salkeld

Great Salkeld Rectory, of medieval origins but modified in 1674 by Thomas Musgrave, also incorporates a pele tower, probably of the early 15th century.[4]

The primary school, which could trace its origins back to 1515, closed in 2004 despite a rigorous campaign to save it.[5]

The largest house in the parish is Nunwick Hall, built in 1892 to a design in the Tudor style by Charles John Ferguson. The local cricket team is named after it. This building should not be confused with the eighteenth-century Nunwick Hall in Northumberland.

Surrounding hamlets

The parish of Great Salkeld includes the hamlets of Salkeld Dykes, which is divided into North and South Dykes, Halfwaywell, Inglewood Bank and Burrell Green.

See also

References
  1. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  2. Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2010). The Buildings of England - Cumbria. Yale University Press.
  3. "Great Salkeld". Carlisle Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  4. "Great Salkeld Rectory". Pastscape. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  5. "Here endeth the lessons..." "Cumberland and Westmorland Herald. 17 July 2004. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

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