Middlesceugh is a hamlet in the civil parish of Skelton, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It in the ecclesiastical parish of Carlisle St Mary.[1] Middlesceugh has a SSSI called Middlesceugh Woods And Pastures,[2] alongside the Roe Beck. It forms part of the Cumbrian Marsh Fritillary Site, which was involved in the Natura 2000 programme.[3]
It appears as Middil Stouke, in 1419 [4]
References
- ^ "Carlisle St Mary". GENUKI.
- ^ "Designated Sites View: Middlesceugh Woods And Pastures". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
- ^ "Site Improvement Plan Cumbrian Marsh Fritillary Site". Natural England. 2014.
- ^ Plea rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives, reference: CP40/634; image available at: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no634/aCP40no634fronts/IMG_0399.htm - the 4th entry, with "Cumbr" in the margin, and William Robynson as the plaintiff