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Maryport is a town and
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in the
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district of
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, England. The town is on the coast of the
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and lies at the northern end of the former
Cumberland Coalfield The Cumberland Coalfield is a coalfield in Cumbria, north-west England. It extends from Whitehaven in the south to Maryport and Aspatria in the north. Geology The following coal seams occur within the Coal Measures Group in this coalfield.Briti ...
. It is about outside the
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. Maryport includes the site of the
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settlement of Alauna. The modern town was developed from the mid-18th century around a new harbour built at the mouth of the
River Ellen The Ellen is a river in the English county of Cumbria, flowing from Skiddaw in the Northern Fells to the Solway Firth at Maryport. It was historically in the county of Cumberland. It is approximately in length. Etymology The River Ellen ge ...
. The parish also includes the village of
Flimby Flimby is a coastal village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Maryport, in the Cumberland district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It was historically in Cumberland. It is included in the Maryport South county divisio ...
. At the 2021 census the built up area had a population of 8,525 and the parish had a population of 10,865.


Location

Maryport is located on the
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north of
Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town is at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast, south-west of Carlisle and north-east of Whitehaven. At the 2021 census the ...
, west of Keswick and south-west of
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.
Silloth Silloth, or Silloth-on-Solway, is a port town and civil parish in the Cumberland (district), Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town stands on the coast of the Solway Firth, west of Carlisle. It was developed from the 1850s onwards a ...
is to the north on the B5300 coast road, which passes through the villages of
Allonby Allonby is a village on the coast of Cumberland in Cumbria, England. The village is on the B5300 road north of Maryport and south of Silloth. The village of Mawbray is to the north, and to the east is the village of Westnewton, Carlisle ...
,
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,
Beckfoot Beckfoot is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert in Cumbria, England. It is located on the B5300 coast road, three miles south of Silloth-on-Solway and two miles north of the village of Mawbray. The county town of Carlisle is ...
and
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. It is one of the southernmost towns on the
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, where the
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skirts the grounds of
Netherhall School The Netherhall School and The Oakes College is a Mixed-sex education, mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Queen Edith ward of Cambridge, England. Its logo is a modified version of the arms of the City of Cambridge. It is one of ...
before flowing through Maryport into the Solway Firth.
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is on the Cumbrian Coast Line.


History


Prehistoric times

Evidence for Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic occupation was found at Netherhall Road. This was the first located archaeological evidence of tuff exploitation in the Lake District.


Roman and medieval times

The town was established around 122 AD as one of several
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localities called Alauna. It was a command and supply base for the coastal defences at the western extremity of
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. The town contains substantial remains of the Roman fort, which was the last in a series that stretched southwards along the coast from the wall to prevent it being avoided by crossing the
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.
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surveys have revealed a large Roman town surrounding the fort. A
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(native) settlement located directly beside the fort may even have supplied the fort with food, possibly in exchange for goods like pottery. The Senhouse Roman Museum adjoins the site of Alauna, and has a replica wooden watch-tower overlooking the fort and the sea. The museum houses a large collection of Roman altar stones found at the site. On Castle Hill are the earthworks and buried remains of a 12th-century
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. On the summit are the foundations of a
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gun emplacement. To the north are the ruins of Netherhall Estate. The only remains of this once grand manor are stables and a 14th-century
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, largely built of dressed Roman stones presumably from Alauna Roman fort nearby. The tower was formerly part of a large house of later date which was demolished in 1979 following a fire.


Georgian times

The area was historically called Ellenfoot (meaning ettlementat the foot of the river Ellen) but the name was changed by Humphrey Senhouse as he began developing the port and new town, following the example of
Whitehaven Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies outside the Lake District National parks of England and Wales, National Park. ...
. In 1749 an act of Parliament, the ( 22 Geo. 2. c. 6), was passed to allow the creation of the present town. Humphrey Senhouse named the new town after his wife Mary. The Senhouse family were landowners in the area and responsible for the development of the town and excavation of its Roman past. The family also had interests in the
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. In 1770, Humphrey Senhouse's son, William, was appointed Surveyor General of Customs in
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where he purchased a sugar plantation and managed another for Sir James Lowther of Whitehaven. William's brother, Joseph, had a coffee plantation in
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. Both men were considerable slave-owners. It was during this period that the town's lighthouse was built.


Victorian times

The town quickly developed as an industrial centre throughout the 19th century. An iron foundry opened and the port developed as did shipyards, such as Wood's yard and Ritson's yard, which was famous for launching ships broadside into the
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because it was not wide enough to allow ships to be launched the usual way. The
Maryport and Carlisle Railway The Maryport & Carlisle Railway (M&CR) was an English railway company formed in 1836 which built and operated a small but eventually highly profitable railway to connect Maryport and Carlisle, Cumberland, Carlisle in Cumberland, England. There ...
, opened in the 1840s, with
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as its engineer, made the transport of coal much easier. Large new mines were sunk in the
Aspatria Aspatria is a town and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England. The town rests on the north side of the Ellen Valley, overlooking a panoramic view of the countryside, with Skiddaw to the South and the Solway Firth to the North. Its dev ...
area and almost all their production passed through the port. In 1846, 213,152 tons of coal were shipped from Maryport and by 1857 this had risen to more than 340,000 tons. Much of the coal produced in the area was turned into coke for the local iron and steel industry. By 1890, the Allerdale Coal Company had thirty Beehive coke ovens working on its site at Buckhill, Broughton Moor. In 1874, the owners announced a cut of 10% in the miners' wages. A strike began in the Aspatria pits and then the owners made a further cut of 15%. By December, the strike had spread to the whole area with 2,000 men involved. The strike lasted until March 1875. There was violence when some 'blacklegs' were assaulted and many colliers left the area to seek work elsewhere. In 1894, John Osmaston who operated the Dearham Colliery became insolvent and the bank took over his pits. Two groups of local miners formed co-operatives and leased the mines at Crosshow and Townhead from the Lowthers. They found it impossible to compete with the other wealthy coal-owners in a tight market and also had serious problems with drainage. This unique experiment ended in 1903 when both companies went into liquidation.


Modern times

During the early years of the 20th century, trade in the docks remained steady but was badly affected by the
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. Then, in 1927, a new deep-water dock was opened in
Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town is at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast, south-west of Carlisle and north-east of Whitehaven. At the 2021 census the ...
. Previously, the Workington Iron and Steel works had imported much of their raw material through Maryport but all of this trade was immediately transferred to the new facility. The local Solway Blast Furnaces also closed. Maryport became a ghost town. The government declared West Cumberland a ‘Special Area' but, by 1933, 57.3% of the town's insured workforce was unemployed. 1,684 men were out of work. Maryport was “for the most part, living on public funds”. In 1936 twenty unemployed men marched from Maryport to join the
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to London. Known as the Maryport Marchers, they were joined by two marchers from
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and two marchers from Frizington. The Maryport Marchers Council organised this. Despite a minor boom during the
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, when coal from
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was diverted to the port, Maryport never recovered. The docks were closed to cargo ships in the 1960s. The last deep pit in the area, at Risehow, closed in 1966. Today, after a series of major regeneration projects such as the
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in the local
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, prospects for the town are starting to look better. It is expected that tourism will play a major role in the future of the town. In October 2018, it was announced that the Netherhall School community swimming pool was to close.


Maryport Lighthouse

The town has a small
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, formerly run by
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, the
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for England. It is a Grade II listed building. A new lighthouse was built at the end of the pier in 1996. In 2010 Trinity House transferred responsibility for the new light to the Maryport Harbour Authority. The old lighthouse was restored and repainted in 2017 as part of a government-funded initiative for the refurbishment of seaside towns.


Governance

There are two tiers of local government covering Maryport, at
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(town) and
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level: Maryport Town Council and Cumberland Council. The town council is based at the Town Hall at the corner of Senhouse Street and High Street, a Georgian building which was originally a bank. Cumberland Council also has an office in the Town Hall. For national elections, Maryport forms part of the
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constituency, which has been represented by
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of the Labour Party since the
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.


Administrative history

Maryport historically formed part of the manor of Ellenborough, which straddled the parishes of
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and Dearham in the historic county of
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. The part of Ellenborough manor in Crosscanonby parish (north of the River Ellen) was known as the
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of Netherhall, and the part of Ellenborough manor in Dearham parish (south of the Ellen) formed a joint township with the neighbouring manor of
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. The township of Ellenborough and Ewanrigg became a separate civil parish from Dearham in 1866. In 1833, a body of
improvement commissioners Boards of improvement commissioners were ''ad hoc'' urban local government boards created during the 18th and 19th centuries in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its predecessors the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Irel ...
was established to administer Maryport. The commissioners' area as created in 1833 was described as the "township of Maryport", but it was subsequently held that this wording was incorrect as there was no township called Maryport. It was therefore unclear whether the commissioners' powers extended over just the township of Netherhall, which contained the main part of the town, or the whole manor of Ellenborough. The ambiguity was resolved in 1866 when the Maryport commissioners' district was redefined by reference to a new boundary, which covered most of the township of Netherhall and a small part of the township of Ellenborough and Ewanrigg on the south bank of the Ellen. In 1894, the district was extended to cover the whole of the townships of Netherhall (which was made a separate
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from Crosscanonby at the same time) and Ellenborough and Ewanrigg. The extension coincided with such improvement commissioners' districts being reconstituted as urban districts under the
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. From 1894 until 1929 the urban district of Maryport comprised two civil parishes: Netherhall, and Ellenborough and Ewanrigg. As
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es they did not have parish councils of their own, but were governed directly by Maryport Urban District Council. The two parishes were merged into a single civil parish of Maryport matching the urban district in 1929. The urban district was enlarged in 1934 to take in the neighbouring parish of Flimby to the south, and from 1934 until 1974 the urban district comprised the two urban parishes of Maryport and Flimby. Maryport Urban District was abolished in 1974. The area became part of the borough of
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in the new county of Cumbria. A
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of Maryport was created covering the former urban district, with its parish council taking the name Maryport Town Council. Allerdale was abolished in 2023 when the new Cumberland Council was created, also taking over the functions of the abolished Cumbria County Council in the area.


Economy

The economy of the area and the emergence of the industrial capacity of the town itself developed largely because of mining and sea trade, but these industries have since declined and the town now relies on tourism as the basis of its economy. There is an aquarium, Maryport Maritime Museum (housed in a former
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on the harbour, and established as a museum in 1975) and a Roman museum. The last houses numerous Roman artefacts, most notably a series of
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to
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Optimus Maximus, which were excavated in the vicinity of the Roman fort. In July 2008, a new tourism venue, the Wave Centre, opened its doors. The Wave Centre is a theatre and conference facility, an interactive heritage exhibition on the local history of Maryport, the Tourist Information Centre for Maryport and a gift shop and bistro. The town has two industrial estates, the Glasson Industrial Estate and the Solway Industrial Estate, which are home to many small local businesses. It was formerly home to a factory belonging to the Bata company which closed in the early 1980s.


Demography

The population in 1841 was 5,311. At the 2021 census, the population of the parish was 10,865, and the population of the built up area was 8,525. The population of the parish in 2011 had been 11,262.


Culture

The town is a major name on the
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music scene, holding the "Maryport Blues Festival" every summer. This has previously attracted names such as
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,
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,
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,
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, Jethro Tull,
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,
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and
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. The three-day event usually takes place on the last weekend of July, attracting both local and international artists. The 2018 Maryport Blues Festival was cancelled. Maryport also holds the annual Taste of The Sea food festival where visitors can enjoy food from all over Cumbria, such as Rum Butter and Kendal Mint Cake. The town has a Scout Group (2nd Maryport) that has been in the town for over 70 years and incorporates most sections within the Scouting Movement. The group was visited by the Bishop of Carlisle to mark the centenary of Scouting in 2008. The town also has a Girl Guiding Group, a Young Archaeology Society, and a local wildlife conservation society. Maryport Golf Club, a 18-hole course, was formed on 21 January 1905.


Media

Local news and television programmes are provided by
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and
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. Television signals are received from the
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TV transmitter. Local radio stations are
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on 95.6 FM and
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on 102.2 FM. The town is served by the local newspaper, Times & Star.


Education

Maryport has five local primary schools, and one secondary school,
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.


Notable people

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, speedway rider *
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, footballer *
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, mutineer on HMS ''Bounty'' * Douglas Clark, rugby league player * Jack Connor, footballer *
Kyle Dempsey Kyle Michael Dempsey (born 17 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Bolton Wanderers. Early life Dempsey was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria. His father Michael Dempsey played rugby league profess ...
, footballer * William Harrison Merchant Navy Officer, and first Captain of Brunel's
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* Mark Heron, musician *
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See also

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Listed buildings in Maryport Maryport is a civil parish in the Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It contains 58 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the Na ...


References


Further reading

*Biggins, J.A. and Taylor, D.J.A., 2004b, "The Roman Fort and Vicus at Maryport: Geophysical Survey, 2000–2004", in R.J.A. Wilson and I, Caruana (eds.), ''Romans on the Solway'', CWAAS for the Trustees of the Senhouse Museum, Maryport, 102–133. * * *


External links


Cumbria County History Trust: Maryport
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article on the Maritime Museum
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iRomans
Link to a website showing a selection of Roman objects from Maryport stored with collection at Tullie House Museum.
Senhouse family in the West Indies
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