Arthuret, Cumberland

Description
Arthuret, a parish in Cumberland, on the river Esk, 8 miles N of Carlisle. It contains Longtown, with a railway station and a post, money order, and telegraph office, and also the townships of Netherby, Breconhill, and Lyneside. Acreage, 12,942; population, 2439. Much of the surface is the low flat land of Solway Moss, stretching toward the head of the Solway Firth, and this, in 1543, was the scene of a famous battle in which the Scots under Oliver Sinclair were defeated by the English under Sir Thomas Wharton. Netherby Hall is the seat of the Graham family, and contains a large collection of Roman corns, tablets, altars, baths, and other relics found in the vicinity. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, about £650. The church was renovated in 1869. There is an endowed school. Archy Armstrong, court-jester to James I. and Charles I., was a native, and was buried in the churchyard.