Static Image Name: | St John The Baptist's Church, Old Hutton - geograph.org.uk - 412358.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | St John the Baptist's Church, Old Hutton |
Official Name: | Old Hutton and Holmescales |
Country: | England |
Region: | North West England |
Coordinates: | 54°24'0"N, 2°42'36"W 54.4°N -2.71°W |
Population: | 417 |
Civil Parish: | Old Hutton and Holmescales |
Shire District: | South Lakeland |
Shire County: | Cumbria |
Constituency Westminster: | Westmorland and Lonsdale |
Post Town: | KENDAL |
Postcode District: | LA8 |
Postcode Area: | LA |
Dial Code: | 01539 |
Pushpin Map: | United Kingdom South Lakeland |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in South Lakeland |
Old Hutton and Holmescales is a civil parish in the South Lakeland district, in the county of Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 357, increasing at the 2011 census to 417. [1] The parish is bordered by the civil parishes of New Hutton, Stainton, Preston Richard, Preston Patrick, Killington, and Lupton.[2]
The parish includes the villages and hamlets of Old Hutton, Holmescales and Middleshaw. There are eight listed buildings in Old Hutton and Holmescales, one of grade II* and seven of grade II.
Holmescales was described in 1870–1872 as "a hamlet in Old Hutton-with-Holmescales township".[3]
Old Hutton and Holmescales became a civil parish in 1866.[4]