The Copeland Parishes & Chapels
TABLE OF COPELAND PARISHES
This table shows the Parishes within the boundaries of the Deanery of Copeland along with their outlying Chapelries.
A significant change in the arrangement of parishes occurred in 1833 when Brigham parish and the associated chapelries were moved from Allerdale above Derwent Ward into the newly created Derwent Ward.
The large parishes of Brigham, Millom and St.Bees developed a group of district Chapelries (Chapels of Ease) in their outlying areas, This was done so as to cut down the long distances that their parishioners had to travel to celebrate the major occasions both in their families lives as well as the church calendar.
Note that Copeland contained the one Extra Parochial District of Salter & Eskatt.
The date given in brackets after the church name is the year that this church opened or was consecrated.
Churches with no date shown against it were already in existence in the 10th century.
The time periods shown in the column BTs / IGI show the years that the Bishops Transcripts (BTs) of the parish registers are available in Carlisle Record Office.
These papers were the source of the majority of the data to be found within the Copeland IGI found on the Mormon familysearch.org web site.
The dates are only given as a guide for family history researchers. A full listing of parishes and the dates covered by their registers can be found in Cumbrian Ancestors published by the Cumbria Archive Service.
Dates given for the start of the early churches are taken from ‘Christianity in Cumbria’ by Henry L. Widdup (1981)
Parishes
Arlecdon
Beckermet
Bootle
Brigham.
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Cleator
Clifton [1822]
Cockermouth - All Saints
Cockermouth - Christ Church
Corney
Dean
Distington
Drigg [1170]
frizington
Egremont
Gosforth
Haile
Harrington
Irton
Lamplugh
Millom - Holy Trinity
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Moresby
Muncaster
Ponsonby
St.Bees
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St.Bridgets
St.John - Beckermet
Waberthwaite
Whicham
Whitbeck
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Whitehaven
Christ Church [1845]
Holy Trinity [1715]
St.James [1753]
St.Nicholas [1694]
Workington
St.Johns [1824]
St.Michaels [1664]
Chapelries
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Buttermere [1507]
Embleton [1210]
Lorton [1198]
Mosser [1547]
Setmurthy [1225]
Wythop [1552]
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Ulpha [1577]
Thwaites [1724]
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Whitehaven-see below
Ennerdale [1534]
Eskdale [1445]
Hensingham [1811]
Loweswater [1225?]
Netherwasdale [1535]
Wasdale Head [1552]
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Register
1730
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1655
1654
1801
1626
1550
1783
1813
1792
1572
1822
1632
1855
1676
1542
1653
1631
1867
1630
1571
1544
1653
1697
1581
1590
1703
1724
1750
1583
1723
1538
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1638
1640
1812
1625
1690
1720
1687
1735
1656
1676
1689
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1845
1710
1753
1694
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1824
1670
BT's & IGI
1720-1877
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1690-1860
1676-1874
1801-1877
1676-1871
1796-1803
1803-1868
1813-1875
1813-1877
1813-1869
1822-1880
1689-1862
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1676-1872
1689-1880
1755-1864
1732-1870
1867-1891
1780-1875
1572-1875
1689-1878
1652-1875
1676-1875
1689-1865
1591-1875
1689-1857
1725-1873
1690-1875
1676-1874
1702-1870
1538-1883
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1676-1877
1778-1871
1811-1875
1676-1875
1689-1854
1720-1871
1702-1870
1689-1877
1813-1875
1569-1862
1689-1880
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1717-1856
1753-1875
1696-1837
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1856-1861
1670-1855