Irton with Santon is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in Copeland,

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, England, which includes the village of

Santon Bridge Santon Bridge is a small village in Copeland, Cumbria, England, at a bridge over the River Irt. The civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation whi ...

. It has a parish council. It had a population of 373 in 2001, decreasing to 316 at the 2011 Census. The parish is bordered by the parishes of

Gosforth Gosforth is a suburb of the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It constituted a separate Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district from 1895 until 1974 before officially merging with the city of New ...

to the north west and west, Eskdale to the east, Muncaster to the south east, and

Drigg and Carleton Drigg is a village situated in the civil parish of Drigg and Carleton on the West Cumbria coast of the Irish Sea and on the boundary of the Lake District National Park in the Borough of Copeland in the county of Cumbria, England. Drigg and ...

to the south west.

Irton Pike Irton Pike is a hill in the west of the English Lake District, near Santon Bridge, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Alfred Wainwright's book ''The Outlying Fells of Lakeland''. The hill reaches a height of . Wainwright's walk as describ ...

is a hill of included in Wainwright's book '' The Outlying Fells of Lakeland'', and the

River Irt The River Irt is a river in the county of Cumbria in northern England. It flows for from the south-western end of Wast Water, the deepest lake in England, leaving the lake at the foot of Whin Rigg, the southern peak of the famous Wastwater Scr ...

flows through the parish, bridged at Santon Bridge. The parish lies within the

Lake District National Park The Lake District National Park is a national park in North West England that includes all of the central Lake District, though the town of Kendal, some coastal areas, and the Lakeland Peninsulas are outside the park boundary. The area was desi ...

, and the only major road is a short stretch of the

A595 The A595 is a primary route in Cumbria, in Northern England that starts in Carlisle, passes through Whitehaven and goes close to Workington, Cockermouth and Wigton. It passes Sellafield and Ravenglass before ending at the Dalton-in-Furness by ...

along the western edge, passing through

Holmrook Holmrook is a linear village in the English county of Cumbria. It lies along the A595 road on the west banks of the River Irt. The B5344 road connects it to Drigg, with its railway station less than two miles to the west. Two miles north-e ...

(a village divided between this parish and Drigg and Carleton). There are 17 listed buildings or structures in the parish. The Church of St Paul and the medieval tower incorporated into Irton Hall are at grade II* and the rest at grade II.

St Paul's church

St Paul's church stands in an isolated position roughly midway between Holmrook and Santon Bridge. It is part of the benefice of Eskdale, Irton, Muncaster and Waberthwaite in the Diocese of Carlisle, and services are held twice a month. The Anglo-Saxon

Irton Cross Irton Cross is an Anglo-Saxon cross in the graveyard of St Paul's Church, in the parish of Irton with Santon, Cumbria, England. Dating from the early 9th century, it lies chronologically between the Bewcastle Cross and the Gosforth cross and h ...

stands in its graveyard; there is a reproduction of it in the Cast Courts of the

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, commissioned by the museum in 1882. A plaque by the font is in memorial to Robert Wilfred Skeffington-Lutwidge who was a commissioner in lunacy. The plaque tells the tragic tale of how he died after being hit on the head by a lunatic. The church was rebuilt in 1857 on the site of an earlier church, by

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of Kendal (who also designed Arnside Church) and includes glass by Morris & Co.

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Cumbria County History Trust: Irton
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) *
Irton
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{{Authority control Civil parishes in Cumbria Borough of Copeland

St Paul's church

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