Woodland is a dispersed hamlet within the

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 ...

Kirkby Ireleth Kirkby Ireleth is a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria. It includes the villages of Grizebeck and Kirkby-in-Furness; and the hamlets of Beanthwaite, Beck Side, Chapels, Soutergate, Wall End and Woodlan ...

in the

Furness Furness ( ) is a peninsula and region of Cumbria in northwestern England. Together with the Cartmel Peninsula it forms North Lonsdale, historically an exclave of Lancashire. The Furness Peninsula, also known as Low Furness, is an area of vill ...

region of

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...

, England, and is located in the southern part of 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 ...

, west of

Coniston Water Coniston Water in the English county of Cumbria is the third-largest lake in the Lake District by volume (after Windermere and Ullswater), and the fifth-largest by area. It is five miles long by half a mile wide (8 km by 800 m), has a ...

, between

Torver Torver is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south west of the village of Coniston, Cumbria, Coniston and west of Coniston Water. Farming has always played an important par ...

and

Broughton-in-Furness Broughton in Furness is a market town in the civil parish of Broughton West in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England. It had a population of 529 at the 2011 Census. It is located on the south western boundary of England's Lake Distri ...

. Woodland was served by the

Woodland Railway Station Woodland railway station served the hamlet of Woodland, in Lancashire, England (now in Cumbria). It was on the branch line A branch line is a phrase used in railway terminology to denote a secondary railway line which branches off a mo ...

which was on the now disused and lifted

branch line A branch line is a phrase used in railway terminology to denote a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line. A very short branch line may be called a spur line. Industrial spur An industri ...

to Coniston.''The Coniston Railway'' by Robert Western, Oakwood Press, Usk 2007. () This station was opened with the line in June 1859, and closed by

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

to passengers in 1958 and goods in 1962. Today the station building is a private residence. Woodland was also served by the Aulthurstside Primary School, which was endowed and first documented in 1724 when its master was nominated by the minister, trustees and sidesmen. In 1828 the current school house was erected by subscription, but by 1947, there were only eleven pupils, and it was closed. Today the school house is a private residence and, as of 2012, a

Caravan Club The Caravan and Motorhome Club is an organisation representing caravan and motorhome users in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was founded in 1907 and now represents nearly one million members (caravanners, motorhomers and campervanners). His ...

site with five pitches. A Baptist Meeting House was supposedly built in the vicinity in the 17th century, and has also long since been closed. Woodland is today served only by the Anglican Church of Saint John the Evangelist from

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Broughton-in-Furness St Mary Magdalene's Church is in Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with thos ...

in the Diocese of

Carlisle, Cumbria Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers Eden, Caldew and Petteril. It is the administrative centre of the Cit ...

. The church building was erected in 1864–65 and parsonage in 1868–69, both to the design of the architect

Edward Graham Paley Edward Graham Paley, usually known as E. G. Paley (3 September 1823 – 23 January 1895), was an English architect who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, in the second half of the 19th century. After leaving school in 1838, he went to La ...

. Previous buildings were erected on the same site in 1698 and 1822. This building is not included on the

National Heritage List for England The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, an ...

. From 1900 to 1906, Sea View Cottages in Woodland was the summer residence of the artist,

Henry Robinson Hall Henry Robinson Hall (1859–1927) was a Victorian and Edwardian landscape painter in oils and watercolours noted for his Highland cattle. Life Hall was born to Eliza Robinson in the City of York in 1859 and died on 31 May 1927 at Barrow-in- ...

and family.''Aulthurstside Church of England School, Broughton-in-Furness - Admission Registers'', BDS 46, Cumbria County Record Office, Barrow in Furness, 1875-1958.

References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Kirkby Ireleth
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) {{Cumbria Hamlets in Cumbria Furness