1. Culgaith Parish Church and churchyard Culgaith village, Eden valley, Cumbria |
2. Interior of All Saints Parish Church Culgaith village, Eden valley, Cumbria |
3. Culgaith 1914 - 1918 'Roll of Honour' A list of locals who served in the Armed Forces |
4. Culgaith 1939 - 1945 'Roll of Honour' A list of locals who served in the Armed Forces |
5. Culgaith Parish War Memorial, Cumbria Located at a village crossroads This face lists those who died in WW1 |
6. Culgaith Parish War Memorial, Cumbria This face lists those who died in WW2 ____________________________________ |
Culgaith is a civil and ecclesiastical parish in a mainly rural setting in Cumbria's Eden valley. There are four main village communities in the parish: Culgaith, Blencarn, Skirwith and Kirkland.
Culgaith village is the largest of these four communities and is where All Saints church, the main church for the ecclesiastical parish, is situated [Photograph No. 1 and Photograph No. 2]. Inside the church is a 'Roll of Honour' listing the names of those from the district who served in the Armed Forces in the 1914 - 1918 war [Photograph No. 3] and the 1939 - 1945 war [Photograph No. 4].
At the main crossroads in Culgaith village is a war memorial in the form of a Wheel Cross made from red sandstone which remembers the locals who died in the two World Wars. It was originally erected to commemorate those who died in the 1914 - 1918 war and their names are engraved on the front face of the memorial [Photograph No. 5]. After the end of the Second World War the names of locals who died in that war were added to the rear of the memorial [Photograph No. 6].
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