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"Crook and Winster... These two, in like manner as Staveley and Ings, were originally one chapelry; but now they are two distinct chapelries. The chapel of Crook is a fair building, with a tower steeple, and one bell. Winster, though it is in the parish of Kendal, yet is said to be in the constablewick of Undermilbeck in the parish of Windermere. The chapelry of Winster was anciently a part of the chapelry of Crook. This place gives name to the rivulet called Winster Beck; which almost from head to foot divides Westmorland from Lancashire."
[Nicolson and Burn: History and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. 1777.]
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Winster is a parish in Kendal Ward and was formerly part of Kendal parish.
It adjoins Lancashire. Nearby parishes include Windermere, Hugill and Crosthwaite cum Lyth.
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Returns do not survive for the 'census' of 1787.
Census returns are available from the usual sources for 1841-1911.
| Holy Trinity Single chamber church of 1875 with bellcote on mid buttress Photograph(s) and description on VisitCumbria. |
Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts are held by Cumbria Archives :
originals at Kendal RO and microfilm copies at Carlisle RO.
| Baptism registers | 1720-1812 |
| Marriage registers | 1120-1837 |
| Banns registers | 1754-1803 |
| Burial registers | 1720-1812 |
| Bishops transcripts | 1813-1871 |
See the CASCAT online calogue for WPR50 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 University of Leicester History, Directory & Gazetteer of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1829
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Winster to another place.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SD413950 (Lat/Lon: 54.346945, -2.904103), Winster 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 Winster 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.