Little Salkeld, Cumberland

Description
Salkeld, Little, a small village and a township in Addingham parish, Cumberland, on the river Eden, 5 1/2 miles NE of Penrith, with a station on a section of the M.R Post town, Carlisle; money order office, Langwathby; telegraph office, at the railway station. Acreage, 1142, including 25 of water; population, 111. The Dean and Chapter of Carlisle are lords of the manor. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Addingham. Services are held in a barn which has been adapted for the purpose, and provides 60 sittings. The ancient chapel stood near the river, and was undermined and washed away. Near the village are the remains of a Druidical circle, called Long Meg and her Daughters, consisting of sixty-nine large unhewn stones so placed as to form an irregular oval. Long Meg is about 12 feet high, and weighs about 17 tons.