Description
Talkin, a village and a chapelry in Hayton parish, Cumberland, on the Newcastle and Carlisle section of the N.E.R., 2 1/2 miles from Brampton Junction station. Post town and money order office, Brampton Junction (R.S.); telegraph office, Brampton. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Hayton, in the diocese of Carlisle. The church is in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and western tower, and serves as a chapel of ease to the parish church. There are a Wesleyan chapel erected in 1870, reading and news rooms, and a freestone quarry. For parish council purposes Talkin forms one of the wards of Hayton parish, and sends three members to the parish council.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
