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Long Sleddale
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"Long Sleddale. . . The chapel stands about the middle of the dale, and was made parochial. . . in 1712. Sleddale Beck, commonly called Spret, springs up in Wrangdale-head in this dale (a place famous for fine blue slate got there), runs southward all along the dale on the west side of the chapel and Ubarrow Hall, from thence on the east side of Burneshead Hall, and about half a mile below falls into the river Kent."
[Nicolson and Burn: History and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. 1777. ]
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Long Sleddale is a parish in Kendal Ward. It was formerly part of the extremely large Kendal parish.
Neighbouring parishes include Shap, Kentmere, Over Staveley and Sleddale.
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Returns do not survive for the 'census' of 1787.
Census returns are available from the usual sources for 1841-1911.
| St. Mary 1863. Nave and chancel. Bellcote at W end Photograph(s) and description on VisitCumbria. Access and contact details on Church of England site More details and maps in Genuki Westmorland Church Database |
Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts are held by Cumbria Archives :
originals at Kendal RO and microfilm copies at Carlisle RO.
| Baptism registers | 1670-1812 |
| Marriage registers | 1671-1977 |
| Banns registers | - |
| Burial registers | 1712-1812 |
| Bishops transcripts | 1813-1861 |
See the CASCAT online calogue for WPR85 for information on these and other parish records..
For searching on LDS familysearch.org see IGI batch numbers (compiled by Jake Prescott)
or use the batch number search site (by Hugh Wallis).
The details for the parish from The University of Leicester History, Directory & Gazetteer of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1829 are transcribed on Edenlinks site
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Long Sleddale to another place.
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale, CWAAS, William Farrer & John F. Curwen (editors) are available on British History Online (also Supplementary Records)
Cumbria County History Trust has published a "Jubilee Digest" for the township of Longsleddale
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NY490047 (Lat/Lon: 54.435534, -2.78771), Long Sleddale which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
Wills for Long Sleddale will be at Carlisle since about 1858 but before that will be at the Preston R.O. as it was in the Diocese of Chester until that time.
Hearth Tax records for 1674 Long Sleddale transcribed on Edenlinks.