as barns and mills. Church records indicate a post-war depression from 1816 to 1830, with a population decrease of about 50 and smaller numbers of marriages. Jennings Brewery was set up in Lorton in 1828 by John Jennings and brewed here exclusively until 1874. 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. In 1863, Prince Arthur visited Lorton Park and planted a commemorative chestnut tree in the gardens. The novelist and agricultural writer and activist Doreen Wallace (1897–1989) was born in Lorton. Historical mentions Lorton features in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–1872) by John Marius Wilson as "a village, a township, and a parish in Cockermouth district, Cumberland". Wilson gave some early key statistics on the value of real property (£3,288), the head count (456) and the area (5264 acres, 2130 ha). Lorton was mentioned some 15 years later in the Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887) by John Bartholomew, whose figures show some changes: the population down by 59 at 397 and the area up by 54 acres at 5318 acres (2152 ha). William Wordsworth, the poet born in Cockermouth, immortalised the Lorton Yew Tree in his poem "Yew Trees" in 1804. It is judged to be at least 1000 years old, but was severely damaged by a storm shortly after the poem was written. See also Listed buildings in Lorton, Cumbria References External links Cumbria County History Trust: Lorton (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) Villages in Cumbria Allerdale Civil parishes in Cumbria