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The site of the priory is an area of firm ground higher than the peat beds that fill the valley, and due to the absence of level ground it is logical that the original settlement would grow up there. However the area was constricted, and as the village expanded it grew up on the opposite side of the
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Agriculture was originally the mainstay of the village economy. Gradually, during the 19th century, service employment for the school and lodgings for the college gave additional income, and with the advent of commuters, the village's social mix was becoming more middle class. Tourism and quarries
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St Bees School embarked on an era of rapid expansion starting with the construction of the quadrangle in 1846 using compensation from the rich mine-owning Lowther family. They had illegally obtained the lucrative mineral rights for Whitehaven from the School in 1742 at a derisory sum. This was the
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in Lithuania. Although the body was over six hundred years old, his nails, skin and stomach contents were found to be in near-perfect condition. After his death the vault was enlarged to take the body of his sister, Maud de Lucy, who died in 1398. Effigies of Maud and Anthony can be seen in an
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both soaked up village labour released by the declining heavy iron and mining industries, and brought a large influx of the technical and scientific university-educated middle class into the village; rather like the first arrival of the professional classes a century earlier. There is now an
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Coast-based recreational activities at St Bees are: windsurfing, kite-surfing, rock climbing, bouldering, swimming, jet-skiing, water-skiing, canoeing and para-gliding. These are undertaken on St Bees Head and off the large sandy surf beach.
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The start of the 20th century saw yet another decline in agriculture, and this has continued to today, when there are only a few farms left. Industrial decline also hit West Cumbria as a whole, particularly after the boom years of both
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Evidence of Mesolithic and Bronze Age habitation has been found in St Bees, but nothing of the Roman occupation, even though St Bees Head would have been a prominent observation point. The name St Bees is a corruption of the
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In 1981 an archaeological excavation at the priory revealed a vault with a lead coffin containing an astonishingly well preserved body – now known as the St Bees Man. He has been identified as Anthony de Lucy, a
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Prehistoric habitation sites in West Cumbria Part 1 -, The St Bees area and north to the Solway- J and PJ Cherry, Transactions of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol LXXXIII
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in 1539. The nave and transepts of the monastic church have continued in use as the parish church to the present day, but much of the extensive monastic buildings were plundered or fell into decay.
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Archbishop Grindal's birthplace; Cross Hill, St Bees, Cumbria. By John M Todd and Mary Todd. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol XCIX, 1999.
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The last two decades have seen a significant revival in tourism, boosted by the Coast to Coast walk and increasing recognition of the unique landscape of the St Bees Heritage Coast.
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Text of lecture given by John M Todd at the Post Graduate Seminar on Medieval history, Lancaster University, Sept 1987, and later at Oxford, Copenhagen and St Andrews universities
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name for the village, which is given in the earliest charter of the Priory as "Kyrkeby becok", which can be translated as the "Church town of Bega", relating to the local
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There are facilities for rugby, football and cricket at the Adams recreation ground adjacent to the Seacote beach. This playing field was created in memory of
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in the ninth century to St Bees to avoid an enforced marriage. Carved stones at the priory show that Irish-Norse Vikings settled here in the tenth century.
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valley. The oldest existing house dates from the early 16th century and the present Main Street was based on a string of farms and farmworkers' dwellings.
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was born in Cross Hill House, St Bees, which still exists, and is marked with a plaque. He was probably educated at the priory across the valley. A devout
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The circular walk to St Bees Head and Birkhams quarry featured in the May 2012 booklet of the best coastal walks in UK published by the
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stayed at the Seacote Hotel. This long history of attracting tourists for "bucket and spade" holidays has continued to this day.
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C J Knusel et al – The identity of the St Bees lady, Cumbria: An osteobiographical approach. Medieval Archaeology vol 54, 2010.
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Panorama: St Bees Head in the north to Black Combe in the south. Above the moraine cliffs in the centre is the golf course
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Liber 1, para i, The Register of the Priory of St Bees, Rev J Wilson, 1915, Published by the Surtees Society.
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had a great influence on the area. The monks worked the land, fished, and extended the priory buildings. The
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ascended the throne. On Mary's death the country once again became Protestant, and Grindal became
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St Bees is a popular holiday destination due to the coastline and proximity to the Western
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first step in St. Bees School's rise from a local institution to becoming one of the new
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extensive science park – Westlakes, on the northern fringe of the parish, at which the
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also provided employment, and many village men found work in the iron ore mines at
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bird reserve which is the only cliff-nesting seabird colony in north-west England.
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reached the village. St Bees attracted the professional classes which commuted to
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did not reach Cumberland until 1092, and when they took over the local lordships,
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National Park. Wainwright recommended that walkers dip their booted feet in the
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newspaper; it being one of only two walks covered in the north west of England.
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The village has a football team which competes in the Cumbria County league.
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extensive history display which includes the shroud in which he was wrapped.
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in 1973. It is an 192-mile (309 km) unofficial and mostly unsignposted
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The village is on the B5345 from Whitehaven to Iron Bridge junction near
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As planned by Alfred Wainwright, it passes through three contrasting
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was founded, and proved popular as it was first for the training of
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St Bees: 19th-century railway station and 16th-century road bridge
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which is the only Heritage Coast between Wales and Scotland and a
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Perhaps some of the greatest changes were after 1849 when the
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Remarkably, the small village of St Bees produced two of the
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stands on the North Head which is the most westerly point of
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The 19th century saw the start of great changes. In 1816
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St Bees is located in the former Borough of Copeland
St Bees is located in Cumbria
Cumbria
OS grid reference
NX971115
Civil parish
District
Copeland
Shire county
Cumbria
Region
North West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
CA27

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