Resources

CPLHS Archive

We have a large collection of digitised documents, booklets, cuttings and other records and photographic images donated to the CPLHS over many years which we make these available for research by our members. The archive is also used when answering the many requests for information about the history and
people of the area that we receive via our website, and for the displays we occasionally exhibit at local history meetings and public events.

Although the Kendal and Barrow Archive Offices hold the official archives of the area, and are well worth a visit, having the local bits and pieces we hold give a more local view of our past. Recently we have transferred the storage of our holdings from a pen-drive or memory stick to an online facility for CPLHS Members using our own password controlled area on Google Drive.

We are always looking to add new material to our document holdings in the CPLHS Archive and welcome contributions. Our usual practice is to copy and return items but we also hold a few physical items not suitable for copying but considered of great local interest. So when having a clear out please think of the Archive!

CPLHS Research Tools

To carry out local research can be daunting so members of our Committee and others can always give you a helping hand and advice. Over the past few years we have, thanks to the dedication of the late Peter Roden of Wood Broughton, converted a collection of essential research documents like the Census returns from 1841 to 1911, Parish Registers for Cartmel Priory, the 1939 Register, Pre-enclosure surveys, etc etc into excel and word documents that can be easily searched. A number of “hoards” containing numerous legal documents and other collections also received the “Peter” treatment giving the CPLHS numerous indexed, analysed and ordered papers making all our research much easier. Thank you Peter.

For donations, Archive enquiries or to gain access to our online archive please contact Nigel Mills via the enquiry form on the ‘Contact Us’ page on this website.

Members Only Resources Page  – (Contents: William Field Logbook; Buttle’s Valuation Book) Contact the website Editor for the Password.

Here are some  Guidelines to contributors to the Website, Newsletter and Transactions.

Here are some documents and lists of Resources to help with Local Research in the Cartmel Peninsula area:

Bibliography June 2019 by John Beckett

Introduction to Cartmel and Lower Holker Almanacs V2 by Peter Roden

Introduction to Broughton East Vestry Book by Peter Roden

Grange Red Books advertisers  by John Beckett

Census Project Report by Peter Roden

Researching Local House History by Rob David

William Field_s Log Book Introduction v2 by Pat Rowland

The Society holds a digitised map of the Peninsula prepared around 1799, at the time of the Enclosure of 8000;-9000 acres of land and a spreadsheet containing details of Buttle’s Valuation book.. Members may obtain copies from Nigel Mills. See also the following document Locations of Fields in John Buttle’s Surveys prepared by Peter Roden.

Stockdale’s Annals of Cartmel 1872 : Introduction and Contents by Peter Roden

There is a free-of-charge facility for the Francis Frith Collection on their website. Bring up the selection of images you require and find the image and click on it to bring the image up as a large single image on the page. move the mouse over the image and click the icon with red arrows facing left & right and it takes you to a page headed embed this photo. Choose the pixel specifications and follow the instructions.