Hensingham, Cumberland

Description
Hensingham, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical district in St Bees parish, Cumberland. The village stands on a rising ground, 1 mile NE of Whitehaven railway station, and has a post office under Whitehaven; money order and telegraph office, Whitehaven. Area of township, 2250 acres; population, 2078; of the ecclesiastical parish, 2065. Hensingham House was the seat of the Senhouses. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; gross value, £195 with residence, built in 1879-80. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is modern, and has several memorial windows. There is a Wesleyan chapel, a mission-room erected in 1885, a cemetery, several charities, and a working-men's reading-room. Archbishop Grindall was a native. A reservoir of the Whitehaven Waterworks and the Galemire Joint Hospital for Infectious Diseases, erected in 1879, are in this township.