Allonby, Cumberland

Description
Allonby, a village, a chapelry, and a township in the parish of Bromfield, Cumberland. The village stands on a wide open bay of its own name, opposite the Robin Rigg light-vessel, is 3 1/2 miles N of Bull Gill railway station, and 5 NNE of Maryport, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. It carries on a fishing trade, and is a fashionable summer resort for sea-bathing. It was the birthplace of the distinguished hydrographer, Huddart, who died in 1816. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £160. Patron, the Vicar of Bromfield. There is a church, a Congregational chapel, and Friends' meeting-house in the village. With the township of West Newton it forms the civil parish of West Newton and Allonby, comprising 1339 acres; population, 497.