Dalston is a large village and

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, England, on the B5299 road south-west of

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. The village is on the River Caldew, just to the north of where the Roe Beck joins it. Dalston railway station is on the Cumbrian Coast Line between , and .

Historic buildings

Rose Castle, home of the Bishop of Carlisle for many centuries until 2009, is within the parish of Dalston, south of the heart of the village. The architects Anthony Salvin and Thomas Rickman were responsible for the alterations which took place in the 19th century. Dalston Hall is a Grade II* listed fortified house which is now a country house hotel. Dalston has two churches: St Michael's Church and Dalston Methodist Church.

Governance

There is a county electoral division of Dalston, stretching north towards Carlisle, with a total population at the

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of 6,051.

Education

There are two schools in Dalston, St Michael's Primary School and Caldew School.

Economy

There is a

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factory producing powdered milk, a BP fuel depot and the Barras Lane trading estate.

Dalston Oil Terminal

With its location just outside

and near the M6 motorway, the Dalston Oil Terminal is a major distribution hub for fuels across the important Northern England supply corridor. Originally built in 1938 as a facility for the storage of aircraft fuel in the build-up to

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, the terminal was expanded in the early 1960s by a

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between ShellMex and BP to include motor spirit tanks. Originally retained by BP following their 2005 divestment of the Innovene business, it was later purchased by Petroineos in 2010 to help support rail-borne exports from their Grangemouth Refinery. The terminal is fed directly from the Grangemouth Refinery via rail link, and delivers various product grades of

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, diesel,

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and kerosene to road customers. In late 2023 Petroineos announced that it would cease manufacturing operations at Grangemouth by 2025, to convert the refinery into a terminal for the import, storage and distribution of a range of fuels. In September 2024, Petroineos further confirmed that the closure would result in the sale or closure of the Dalston Oil Terminal, with the final fuel shipment expected by the end of 2024.

Notable people

* Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet (1792–1861) was educated at Dalston. * Georgiana Harcourt (1807–1886), translator, was born at Dalston while her father Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt was Bishop of Carlisle. *

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(1743–1805), was Vicar of Dalston in the 1780s. * Edward Rainbowe (1608–1684) lived here while Bishop of Carlisle. * George Robinson (1737–1801), London publisher, was born here. * Sarah Story, DJ * Musgrave Watson (1804–1847), sculptor, was born here.

References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Dalston
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Dalston Community Website
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