Little Musgrave


Little Musgrave is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Musgrave, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. In 1891 the parish had a population of 52.

Location

The village is situated at 500 ft above sea level in the upper reaches of the Eden Valley just south of the River [Eden, Cumbria|Eden River] and two and one-half miles west-south-west of Brough.
The village lies within the historic county of Westmorland.

History

Little Musgrave was formerly a township in Crosby-Garret parish, from 1866 Little Musgrave was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 30 December 1894 and merged with "Great Musgrave" to form "Musgrave".

Notable residents