Archive
The Society's Archive
The Society
keeps a considerable amount of information about the area and
its history, including:
- Lorton Parish Registers to 1900 on database
- Loweswater and Lorton Memorial Inscriptions
- Extensive photo-archive
- OS map copies first series 1861, 25” and 6”
- OS map copies second series 1899, 6” and some 25”
- Lorton census and some others to 1891
- Tithe maps, files and allocations: Brackenthwaite, Buttermere, Lorton, Loweswater, Whinfell, Embleton and Wythop
- Enclosure maps for Lorton and Whinfell
- Collection of copy deeds and conveyances
- Collection manorial records, Derwentfells and High Lorton
- Collection wills Derwentfells and High Lorton
- Parish Magazines Lorton, Loweswater, Buttermere
- Various books on general local history topics
- Various books on the history of our area
- Copies of parish and trade directories
- Various estate map copies
- Various family histories and family trees for local names
Loweswater School 1930 - we know their names
Their parents, perhaps, at school around 1900
The archive is held at 19 Low Road Close in Cockermouth. It is not held in a form which is directly accessible by enquirers and there is no complete catalogue. For enquiries about the
archive contact Derek Denman by
or telephone on 01900 829097.