Hayton and Mealo

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Hayton and Mealo
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Hayton and Mealo
Location within Cumbria
Population217 (Parish, 2021) [1]
OS grid reference NY1041
Civil parish
  • Hayton and Mealo
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WIGTON
Postcode district CA7
Police Cumbria
Fire Cumbria
Ambulance North West
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UK
England
Cumbria
54°45′36″N3°23′17″W / 54.760°N 3.388°W / 54.760; -3.388

Hayton and Mealo is a civil parish in the Cumberland district, Cumbria. The main settlement is Hayton, a village in the centre of the parish. Mealo is an area to the west of the parish, on the coast south of Allonby.

Contents

The parish has an area of 2.9 square miles (7.6 km2). [2] The western boundary of the parish is a short stretch of coastline south of Allonby; working clockwise it is then bordered by Allonby parish to the north, Westnewton to the north east, Aspatria to the east and Oughterside and Allerby to the south. The B5300 road runs along the western edge of the parish, on the coast, and the A596 road from Aspatria to Maryport runs just outside the parish's south eastern boundary.

History

The Manor of Hayton was long held by the Musgrave family, from about 1500 until the early 19th century, when it passed to the Hylton and Jolliffe family through marriage.

Hayton and Mealo was historically one of four townships within the ancient parish of Aspatria, in the historic county of Cumberland. [3] From the 17th century onwards, parishes were gradually given various civil functions under the poor laws, in addition to their original ecclesiastical functions. In some cases, including Aspatria, the civil functions were exercised by each township separately rather than the parish as a whole. In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Hayton and Mealo became a civil parish. [4]

St James's church was built in 1868 at Hayton and given an ecclesiastical parish covering both the Hayton and Mealo and neighbouring Oughterside and Allerby civil parishes. [5]

Governance

There are two tiers of local government covering Hayton and Mealo, at parish and unitary authority level: Hayton and Mealo Parish Council and Cumberland Council. [6] [7] Its archives 1997-2013 are held at the Carlisle Archive Centre. [8] The parish is in the parliamentary constituency of Penrith and Solway. [9]

Demography

At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 217. [1] The population had been 237 in the 2011 census. [2] In 1848, its population was 378. [10]

Listed buildings

There are seven listed buildings in the parish, including the grade 1 listed Hayton Castle.

References

  1. 1 2 "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual community data, use the query function on table PP002.)
  2. 1 2 UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Hayton and Mealo Parish (E04002410)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  3. ↑ "Aspatria Ancient Parish / Civil Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  4. ↑ Youngs, Frederic (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume II, Northern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. xv. ISBN   0861931270.
  5. ↑ Kelly's Directory of Cumberland. 1906. p. 162. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  6. ↑ "Hayton and Mealo Parish Council". Hayton and Mealo Parish Council. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "Hayton and Mealo". Parish Council. Allerdale Borough Council. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  8. ↑ Hayton and Mealo Parish Council. "records:". The National Archive. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  9. ↑ "Penrith and Solway [map]". mapit.mysociety.org. MapIt. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
  10. ↑ Lewis, S. "Hayle - Hazon Pages 454-456 A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)". British History Online. Retrieved 6 September 2021.


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