Angerton 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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

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district of

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, England. It was historically part of the

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portion of

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. The parish includes a few houses, Angerton Hall, and Angerton Marsh. At the 2021 census, the population was 25.

History

Angerton, also called Angerton Moss, was historically an

extra-parochial area In England and Wales, an extra-parochial area, extra-parochial place or extra-parochial district was a geographically defined area considered to be outside any ecclesiastical or civil parish. Anomalies in the parochial system meant they had no ch ...

within the

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. It was bounded on three sides by the parish of

Kirkby Ireleth Kirkby Ireleth is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of the England, English county of Cumbria. It includes the villages of Grizebeck and Kirkby-in-Furness - which is really a collection of six di ...

, and on the fourth (western) side by the estuary of the

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. Angerton became a civil parish in 1858 under the Extra-Parochial Places Act 1857, which sought to eliminate such areas that lay outside any parish. When elected parish and district councils were established under the

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, Angerton was included in the Ulverston Rural District, which was renamed North Lonsdale Rural District in 1960. Angerton was too small to qualify for a parish council, and so it had a

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instead. North Lonsdale Rural District was abolished in 1974, and Angerton became part of the

South Lakeland South Lakeland was a local government district in Cumbria, England, from 1974 to 2023. Its council was based in Kendal. The district covered the southern part of the Lake District region, as well as northwestern parts of the Yorkshire Dales. A ...

district in the new county of

. In 1976, Angerton was placed under a

grouped parish council A parish council is a civil local authority found in England, which is the lowest tier of local government. Parish councils are elected corporate bodies, with variable tax raising powers, and they carry out beneficial public activities in geogr ...

covering the three civil parishes of Angerton,

Broughton West Broughton West is a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is based around the small town of Broughton-in-Furness, for which Broughton West was historically an alternative name. The parish also includes the ...

, and Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite. South Lakeland was abolished in 2023 when the new Westmorland and Furness Council was created, also taking over the functions of the abolished Cumbria County Council in the area.

Governance

There are two tiers of local government covering Angerton, at

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and

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level: Duddon Parish Council and

Westmorland and Furness Council Westmorland and Furness Council is the Local government in England, local authority for Westmorland and Furness, a local government district in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority, b ...

. The parish council is a grouped parish council, covering the three parishes of Broughton West, Angerton, and Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite. The parish council meets at the Victory Hall in

Broughton-in-Furness Broughton in Furness is a market town in the civil parish of Broughton West in the Westmorland and Furness 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 Lak ...

References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Angerton
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