Longcroft, Cumbria

Longcroft

A house in Longcroft
Longcroft
 Longcroft shown within Cumbria
OS grid referenceNY214581
Civil parishBowness
DistrictAllerdale
Shire countyCumbria
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town WIGTON
Postcode district CA7
Dialling code 016973
Police Cumbria
Fire Cumbria
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK ParliamentWorkington
List of places
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England
Cumbria

Coordinates: 54°54′43″N 3°13′34″W / 54.912°N 3.226°W / 54.912; -3.226

Longcroft is a small community in Cumbria, England nestled in between Kirkbride and Anthorn. The village contains only five houses, one of which is Longcroft Farm, a dairy farm. The marsh at the bottom of the lands has been used in film documentaries, as it is the only place in Cumbria where there is not "background pollution".

Isold Isabel de Longcroft (born about 1107, Longcroft, Cumbria) wed, in 1128, Lord Odard de Loges (aka Logis; born 1095, Highlands, Scotland), who was made Earl of Wigton by King Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror. The couple had two sons, Baron Adam de Wigton (born Wigton, Cumbria, 1129 - died around 1208) and Baron Gilbert de Wigton (born Wigton, Cumbria, about 1130 – died about 1190).[1]

The de Wigton and de Kirkbride families intermarried in 1286, when Sir Richard de Kirkbride married Christina de Wigton in Kirkbride, Cumbria; the couple had two sons:

The extremely distant descendants of the Kirkbrides would eventually emigrate across the pond to the New World and help establish the American city of Trenton, New Jersey, the capital of the State of New Jersey.[1]

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