Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Arthuret, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Arthuret in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Beck	village	Bartholomew
Breconhill	township	Bartholomew
BRECONHILL, or Brackenhill	a township	Imperial
Lyneside	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
LYNESIDE	a township	Imperial
Netherby	hamlet	Bartholomew
NETHERBY	a township	Imperial

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Arthuret like this:

ARTHURET, a parish in Longtown district, Cumberland; on the river Esk, and the Border Counties railway, 8 miles N of Carlisle. It contains Longtown, with r. station and post office, the latter under Carlisle; and contains also the townships of Netherby, Breconhill, and Lyneside. Acres, 17,390. Real property, £9,615. Pop., 3,714. Houses, 615. The property is divided among a few. Much of the surface is the low flat land of Solway moss, stretching toward the head of the Solway frith; and this, in 1543, was the ...

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scene of a famous battle in which the Scots under Oliver Sinclair were defeated by the English under Sir Thomas Wharton. Netherby Hall is the seat of Sir F. U. Graham, Bart.; and contains a large collection of Roman coins, tablets, altars, baths, and other relics found in the vicinity. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £847.* Patron, Sir F. U. Graham, Bart. The church was renovated in 1869. There is an endowed school with £40 a year. Archy Armstrong, court-jester to James I. and Charles I., was a native, and was buried in the churchyard.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Arthuret by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Netherby	0	2
Longtown	0	2
Kirkandrews upon Esk	0	2
Kirklinton	0	4
Kirkandrews Moat	0	3
Kirkandrews Middle	0	1
Riddings	0	2
Hethersgill	0	2
Beck	0	2
Westlinton	0	2
Solway Moss	0	1
Kirkandrews Nether	0	1
Canonbie	0	2
Solport	0	2
Scaleby	1	2
Penton	0	2
Gilnockie	0	2
Trough	0	2
Gretna	6	3
Rockcliffe	1	2