In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hesket Newmarket like this:
HESKET-NEWMARKET, a small town in Caldbeck parish, Cumberland; on the river Caldew, under Caldeckfell, 7½ miles NNW of Penruddock r. station, and 9 SE of Wigton. It has a post office under Wigton; is of modern date; was held by the Lawsons; contains a neat town hall, an old mansion, and a Quakers' chapel; and stands amid environs of picturesque and romantic character, with rocks containing much lead ore and some copper, molybdena, and manganese. ...
A weekly market is held on Friday; fairs for cattle are held on every Friday from the beginning of May till Whitsuntide; and fairs for sheep are held on the last Thursday of Aug. and the 2d of Oct.
Hesket Newmarket through time
Hesket Newmarket is now part of Allerdale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Allerdale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hesket Newmarket itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hesket Newmarket, in Allerdale and Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21460
Date accessed: 01st June 2024
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