Official Name: | Hutton Roof |
Country: | England |
Region: | North West England |
Coordinates: | 54.6984°N -2.9736°W |
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Hutton Roof is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mungrisdale, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, near Penrith.[1] It is at an elevation of 308m (1,010feet), between the valley of the River Caldew and that of its tributary Gillcambon Beck. In 1931 the parish had a population of 108.[2] The civil parish of Mungrisdale, which is made up of eight hamlets including Hutton Roof, had a population of 297 in the 2011 United Kingdom census.
In 1870–1872 it was described as a township in Greystoke parish, with a population of 169 people in 33 houses.[3] From 1866 Hutton Roof was a separate civil parish until 1 April 1934 when the parish was abolished and merged with Mungrisdale.[4]