Lonsdale Hundred

Coordinates: 54°09′N 2°49′W / 54.15°N 2.82°W / 54.15; -2.82

The Lonsdale was a hundred of Lancashire, England. For centuries, it covered most of the northwestern part of Lancashire around Morecambe Bay, including the detached part around Furness, and the city of Lancaster.

The name Lonsdale refers to the River Lune which flowed through the southern part of the hundred. Lonsdale was not recorded as a hundred in the Domesday Book, but the name does appear, in the returns for Yorkshire, apparently as a manor attached to Cockerham. 'in Lonsdale' has been appended to an number of places within the Lune's watershed. Kirkby Lonsdale, Burton-in-Lonsdale, Thornton-in-Lonsdale retain the name but Middleton, Sedbergh, Ingleton and Newby, near Clapham have previously been recorded with it. Following the creation of the hundred sometime during the late 11th or early 12th centuries, parts of the district were included in Westmorland and others in Craven within the West Riding of Yorkshire. The hundred had been defined by 1168 and the bailiwick was granted to Adam de Kellet (of Nether Kellet) in 1199.

North Lonsdale (UK Parliament constituency)

North Lonsdale was a parliamentary constituency in north Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the two-seat North Lancashire constituency replaced divided by a number of single-seat divisions.

The North Lonsdale Rural District, on which the constituency was based, was at the time an exclave of Lancashire. The area is now in Cumbria.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

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