St John’s in the Vale is a chapelry of Crosthwaite Ancient Parish in Cumberland.
Alternative names:
- St John
- St John Castlerigg and Wythburn
- St John’s Castlerigg and Wythburn
Parish church: St John
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1776
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1776
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Threlkeld
- Borrowdale
- Matterdale
- Wythburn
- Grasmere, Westmorland
- Patterdale, Westmorland
- Watermillock
- Crosthwaite
- Langdale, Westmorland
- Keswick
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
JOHN’S-IN-THE-VALE (ST.), a chapelry in St. John-Castlerigg and Wythburn township, Crossthwaite parish, Cumberland; 2¼ miles SE of Keswick r. station. Post town, Keswick, under Windermere. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £63. Patron, alternately the Earl of Lonsdale and Landowners.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
JOHN’S, ST., a chapelry, and, with Castlerigg and Wythburn, a township, in the parish of Crosthwaite, union of Cockermouth, Allerdale ward below Derwent, W. division of Cumberland; containing 499 inhabitants. The beautiful valley of St. John’s is the scene of the poem of The Bridal of Triermain by Scott; it is narrow, and hemmed in by high mountains. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £63; patrons, alternately, the Earl of Lonsdale, and the Landowners. The whole of Castlerigg and a small portion of St. John’s are now comprised in the district belonging to the new church of St. John, Keswick.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch Catalog
Bishop’s transcripts for St John’s-in-the-Vale, 1775-1889
Church records, 1732-1906 Author: Church of England. Chapelry of St. John’s-in-the-Vale (Cumberland)
Computer printout of St John’s in the Vale by Keswick, Cumb., Eng
Administration
- County: Cumberland
- Civil Registration District: Cockermouth
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Carlisle (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Carlisle
- Rural Deanery: Allerdale
- Poor Law Union: Cockermouth
- Hundred: Allerdale below Derwent Ward
- Province: York