Melling-with-Wrayton

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Coordinates: 54 ° 8 ′  N , 2 ° 37 ′  W

St Wilfrid's Church, Melling

Melling-with-Wrayton is a civil parish in Lancashire , England with 290 inhabitants (2001), which consists of the village of Melling and the hamlet of Wrayton . The place is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Mellinge .

Melling is located on a natural hill above the River Lune , the course of which was once closer to the place, but which has now shifted in a westerly direction to Arkholme . In the middle of the village are the remains of a fortress from the 12th century. The fortification was built on an artificially created hill, a moth . This hill still rises 6 m in the garden of the rectory, but it has been badly damaged. The remains of the defense tower are no longer there. The castle is one of several castles in the River Lune valley that no longer exist, but which once served as an important line of defense against enemy incursions from the north into England, across the Shap Summit pass and then along the course of the River Lune could be carried out at Tebay , protected and still today demonstrate the borderland character of this area after the Norman conquest.

The location of St Wilfrid's church on the fortress hill of Melling and Norman remains on its walls suggest that it originated in the chapel of the defensive tower. The oldest parts of the church that still exist today were built around 1300. However, a large part of the building dates from the 15th century and was rebuilt and restored in both the 18th and 19th centuries. Today the church is a Grade I protected building monument.

Until 1952 Melling had a station on the railway line of the former Furness and Midland Joint Railway , which is now part of the Leeds – Morecambe line .

See also

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  • William Farrer, J. Brownbill (Ed.), A History of the County of Lancaster, Vol. 8 , London: Constable, 1914. pp. 203-204. Entry Melling with Wrayton. Here: online .

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