Description
Farlam, a parish in Cumberland, its western boundary-adjoining the Brampton Junction station of the Carlisle anA Newcastle railway, 1 1/2 mile ESE of Brampton. Acreage, 5310; population of the civil parish, 1502; of the ecclesiastical, 1497. The parish consists of a number of scattered. groups of colliery houses, and its post town is Hallbankgate, under Carlisle. There are extensive coal mines here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £162' with residence. Patron, the Earl of Carlisle. The churchy dedicated to St Thomas a Becket, was built in 1861, near the site of an ancient parish church, at a cost of about £1600.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
