Camerton, Cumberland

Description
Camerton, a township and a parish in Cumberland. The township lies on the river Derwent, 3 miles E by N of Workington, and has a station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Workington. Acreage of township, 785; population, 245; of ecclesiastical parish, 3474. The parish includes also the township of Seaton, and extends down the Derwent to the sea. Camerton Hall is a chief residence. Coal is largely worked, brick and tile making is carried on, and there are tin-plate and iron works. There are three churches:- the ancient parish church at Camerton, of which the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle are patrons-value, £300 and residence-rebuilt in 1633 at a cost of £15, also rebuilt in 1794, and again in 1892 ; St Paul's Church, at Seaton, erected in 1883 as a chapel of ease to the former; and Holy Trinity, for the new parish of West Seaton, built in 1893 and endowed to the extent of £340, also provided with a new parsonage. The patronage of Holy Trinity has been vested in trustees. The old church contains the tomb of " Black Tom of the North" who died in 1152. At Seaton there is a Wesleyan chapel.