Hesket Newmarket Conservation Area
We have carried out an Appraisal of Hesket Newmarket Conservation Area. The draft Appraisal assesses the special qualities which justify its designation and helps to determine whether any alterations in the boundary need to be made. A draft Management Plan has also been prepared outlining the measures for the preservation and enhancement of the area.
We would like comments on the draft Appraisal from local residents, local stakeholders and interest groups.
Why is Hesket Newmarket special?
Hesket Newmarket is a small historic hamlet in a sheltered location on a terrace above the valley of the River Caldew with attractive architectural and historic character. This includes:
- At the meeting point of some twelve roads, bridle-tracks and footpaths linking Hesket Newmarket to the high sheep-grazed fells to the south and west and to the patchwork of small fields and cattle pasture surrounding the village
- The main focus of settlement surrounding the edges of an long sloping elliptical village green that once hosted the market from which the hamlet derives its name
- A secondary development along the roads leading into the hamlet, and around the How Beck, to the east of the hamlet
- Numerous listed buildings dating mainly from the late 17th to early 19th centuries, including the Market Cross in the centre of the green and the unusual cross-shaped Hesket Hall Farmhouse
- Several of these buildings being former public houses and a smithy, buildings that testify to the hamlet’s historic role as a market and meeting place for the scattered farms of this part of the Lake District
- Working farms and grazing sheep, cattle and ducks in the centre of the village and in the fields that descend into the village
- Wide green verges and spring-fed greens enhancing the close relationship between Hesket Newmarket and the surrounding landscape
- Abundant wildlife, including large flocks of swallows
- Significant long views through the conservation area to the rolling hills and woodland that surround the hamlet
- A thriving commercial hub catering to visitors with camping and bed and breakfast accommodation, a tea shop, pubs and a brewery, and a post office and general store.
Public consultation
The involvement of local community, stakeholders and those with an interest in the local area in the designation of a conservation area and in the preparation of appraisals and management plans is an essential part of the process. Such involvement can integrate local knowledge into the appraisal and bring invaluable public understanding and ownership to proposals for the conservation area. The initial appraisal and management plan are draft documents to enable them to be amended if required.
Each appraisal and management plan involves a four week period of consultation during which time an exhibition will be held in the local area for the public.
Find out more
Hesket Newmarket Draft Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (opens Document Library)
Read more about the benefits of Conservation Areas and the Appraisals process.
To comment
We want to hear the views of local people, organisations and businesses and other interest groups about the proposed conservation area.
Please give us your views using the Conservation Area Assessment Questionnaire (opens Document Library). Please download and either print out and send to:
David James
Lake District National Park Authority
Murley Moss
Oxenholme Road
Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 7RL
or email as an attachment to david.james@lake-district.gov.uk by 27 May 2009
Exhibition
A local exhibition has been arranged at Caldbeck Parish Hall on:
- Monday 11 May 2009 from 6.30pm
Someone will be available at the exhibition if you have any questions.
If you can't make it, don't worry! You can look at the Hesket Conservation Area Exhibition Panels online (opens Document Library)
