Location: Oxenholme
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1675
- Property belonging to Miles Archer at Oxenholme assessed for 9 hearths
1710
- Oct 6: Presentment by John Archer, esqr., that the highway leading from Pottbeck to Oxen Holme is very ruinous; order for repair before 1 December, by the inhabitants under pain of £10 fine. Kendal Order Book, 1696–1724.
1735
- Dec 4: John Archer, doctor of physic and one of his majesty’s justices of the Peace for the county, died at Oxenholme. “He was a worthy man, an honor to his profession, an impartial magistrate, an amiable friend, a delight to his acquaintance, an happiness to his country.” Memento mori, published by Thomas Cotton, Kendal.
1841
- Jun 6: Census: Only 1 household (Oxenholme Farm) with total population of 13 (9 males & 4 females)
1846
- Sep 18: Official opening of 20 mile section of railway from Oxenholme to Lancaster and 2 mile section from Oxenholme to Kendal
1846
- Dec 15: Main line from Oxenholme to Carlisle completed
1847
- Mar: Branch line from Kendal to Windermere completed
1851
- Mar 30: Census: Only 1 household (Oxenholme Farm) with total population of 12 (8 males & 4 females)
- May: Eleanor Hayhurst drowns in the canal close to Highgate Settings bridge
1853
- Oct 14: Queen Victoria stops at Oxenholme Station
1861
- Apr 30: Census: Just 8 households with total population of 40 (19 males & 21 females).
1862
- George Teasdale granted licence to sell spirits at Oxenholme Station Inn
1868
- Jan: Platelayer John Cross killed half a mile from Oxenholme Station
1871
- Apr 2: Census: Just 8 households with total population of 35 (22 males & 13 females).
- Dec 9: James Armer gatekeeper killed at Oxenholme Level Crossing
1872
- The parish of Natland, including Oxenholme, is formed – until then, Natland was a chapelry of Kendal
- In an Act (35 Vict., c. 87) for conferring additional powers on the London and North-Western Railway Co., leave was given to make a new road, instead of the existing level crossing at Oxenholme station, commencing from and out of the turnpike road leading from Kendal to K. Lonsdale at a point thereon 30 yards west of the point where that road crosses the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway on the level, and terminating by a junction with the same road at a point thereon 110 yards or thereabouts east of the said level crossing. They may stop up and discontinued as a turnpike road or public highway and appropriate to the purposes of their undertaking so much of the beforementioned existing turnpike road as extends for a distance of 5 yards on each side of the Railway.
1875
- Mar: Head Porter Thompson Holmes loses arm
1878
- In an Act (41 Vict. c. 181) for conferring further powers on the London and North-Western Railway Co., leave was given to acquire certain lands, houses and buildings lying on both sides of and adjoining the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway at the Oxenholme station on that railway. And certain other lands in the township of Natland lying on the west side of and adjoining the said railway, 400 yards or thereabouts south of the said station.
- Dec 25: William Phillipson, who attended the mail bags, was killed at Oxenholme Station
1880
- Sep 11: Stewardson Martin, a workman for the station alterations, was killed at Oxenholme Station
1880/1
- Oxenholme Station & Oxenholme Railway Shed rebuilt
1881
- Apr 3: Census:
1885
- Helmside Cottages built
1890
- Station Road constructed and Oxenholme House built
- Jan 1: John Pears foreman porter killed at Oxenholme Station
- Jul 19: Thomas Howson 36 killed near Helmside Bridge
- Oct 16: William Langhorn porter killed at Oxenholme Junction
- Oct 25: John William Royston breaksman 36 killed near Oxenholme Station
1891
- Apr 5: Census:
1896
- Natland Terrace built
- Jan 15: John Dobson foreman porter 36 killed at Oxenholme Station
1897
- Hill Place built
1901
- Mar 31: Census:
1906
- Helmside Road, linking Helmside and Natland Terrace, constructed and Mission Hall opens
1909
- Feb 9: John Park shunter has lower limb amputated after accident at Oxenholme Station
- Jul 21: Jane Page found drowned in canal
1911
- Apr 30: Census:
1913
- Dec 1: Oxenholme Breaksman Harry Paine critically injured at Wigan and died Dec 5
1914 –1918 First World War
1915
- Jun 28: Private George Francis ‘Frank’ Askew dies at Gallipoli
1917
- May 27: Private Douglas Swan Tweddle dies in France
1918
- Mar 28: Private Alexander Cragghill dies at the Battle of Arras
1920
- Jan 8: William Green killed at Oxenholme by Preston Express
1920
- Jan 25: Private Herbert Nixon dies in Southern Russia
1921
- Bolefoot building starts
- Natland and Oxenholme Women’s Institute formed
1923
- London & North Western Railway (LNWR) becomes part of London, Midland & Scottish (LMS) Railway
1925
- Aug 25: Ernest Nevinson dies following accident in Oxenholme shunting yard
1937
- Electricity reaches Oxenholme
1938
- Richard Hill injured on railway
1939 –1945 Second World War
1948
- London, Midland & Scottish (LMS) Railway becomes London Midland Region (LMR) of British Railways
1951
- Mission Hall closes
1958
- Refreshment Room at Oxenholme Station transfers from British Transport Catering into private ownership of Jane Elizabeth Wilson. While under BTC control it was run by Miss M Place who lived at No 2 cottage. It had a beer cellar.
1962
- Jun: Engine shed closes. Its last Shedmaster was W. Walker.
- Refreshment Room at Oxenholme Station closes. Sadly closure of the goods shed took away some of its trade.
1965
- Feb 10: Armed man shoots three policemen at Oxenholme Station, killing Police Constable George William McKinley Russell, aged 35
1968
- Road bridge raised in readiness for electrification
1969
- Station closes to goods traffic
1971
- Five people injured when Glasgow to Manchester express hit local train at Oxenholme Station
1971
- Railway main line electrified
1973
- Signal boxes at Oxenholme Station removed
1974
- May: HM Queen Elizabeth II arrives at Oxenholme Station
1977
- Refreshment facilities return to Oxenholme Station
1985
- May 25: HM Queen Elizabeth II arrives at Oxenholme Station in the Royal Train to visit the Lake District and are received by Lord-Lieutenant for Cumbria, Sir Charles Graham, Bt
2013
- Jul 17: HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Princess Royal visit Oxenholme
2015
- Feb 10: Service to commemorate Police Constable George William McKinley Russell murdered at Oxenholme Station 50 years previously
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