• Dalton_well_pump.jpg
  • Farleton_Knott.jpg
  • Holme-Mills.jpg
  • Ellers_Farm_Farleton.jpg
  • Royal_Hotel_Burton.jpg
  • Water_Trough_Levens.jpg
  • WW1_exhibition.jpg
  • Janson-bridge_Holme.jpg
  • Looking_from_Burton_towards_Holme.jpg
  • Holme_village.jpg
  • Storth.jpg
  • 2012_Diamond_Jubilee_Exhibition.jpg
  • WW1_medals.jpg
  • Burton_St_James_Church.jpg
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Burton Archives

All enquiries about any of the following in writing, enclosing a stamped SAE to:
Keeper of Burton Archives, 2 Station Lane, Burton in Kendal, Via Carnforth. LA6 1HT

The bulk of the archives include Burton-in-Kendal, Clawthorpe and Dalton information. There is also a lot of info on Farleton, Beetham parish, plus items on all the parishes surrounding Burton-in-Kendal and Holme in the county of Cumbria.

  • Books, extracts, leaflets
  • Census Returns: 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901
  • Church, gravestones, vicarage
  • Directory extracts 1829 onwards
  • Drawings
  • Events
  • Farms, land, properties
  • List of holdings in the Kendal Archives
  • Magazine & newspaper items
  • Maps
  • Members' projects
  • Memorial Hall, Burton
  • Organisations, clubs, societies
  • Photographs
  • People
  • Registers of electors, parish council
  • Schools
  • Transport, roads, railway, canal, footpaths