Lowther 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 Eden District, Cumbria. Within the parish are the settlements of Lowther Village, Newtown or Lowther Newtown,

Hackthorpe Hackthorpe is a hamlet in the Eden district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Circa 1870, it had a population of 110 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Location It is located on the A6 road just south of Lowther ...

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, and

Melkinthorpe Melkinthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lowther, in the Eden district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is near the villages of Hackthorpe Hackthorpe is a hamlet in the Eden district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Circa ...

. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 402, increasing to 465 at the 2011 Census. The parish council meets at the Lowther Parish Hall in Hackthorpe. Lowther Endowed

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is also at Hackthorpe. Most of the land in the parish belongs to the Lowther family estates. The family seat of the Lowthers was formerly

Lowther Castle Lowther Castle is a country house in the historic county of Westmorland, which now forms part of the modern county of Cumbria, England. It has belonged to the Lowther family, latterly the Earls of Lonsdale, since the Middle Ages. It is a fu ...

which is now a ruin but set in spectacular parkland. Hackthorpe once had its own

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which is now part of the village's

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. A large part of the parish is within the

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References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Lowther
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
www.lowther.co.uk The website of the Lowther Estates
Civil parishes in Cumbria {{Cumbria-geo-stub

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