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Lorton Park is a Grade II Listed Regency House owned in the 19th century by Richard Harbord, a Liverpool shipping magnate buried in the parish church.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lorton Park, Lorton, Cumbria |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-72675-lorton-park-lorton-cumbria |publisher=British Listed Buildings}}</ref> In 1863, Prince Arthur visited Lorton Park and planted a commemorative chestnut tree in the gardens.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100408085128/http://webdata.carterjonas.co.uk/assets/CJ/sales/pdf/KEN080051.PDF Lorton Park]</ref>
 
The writer and newspaper publisher [[Ann Fisher (grammarian)|Ann Fisher]] was born in this parish in 1819<ref>{{CitationCite ODNB |date=2004-09-23 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45847 |work=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |pages=ref:odnb/45847 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |access-date=2023-03-26 |title=Ann Fisher|place=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/45847 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B.}}</ref> as was the novelist and agricultural writer and activist [[Doreen Wallace]] (1897–1989).
 
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