Haile, Cumbria

Haile is a small village and civil parish in Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria, England.

[1] Nearby settlements include the town of Egremont and the villages of Thornhill and Beckermet.

The parish is situated near the River Ellen, and comprised the townships of Hale and Wilton.

[2] In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Haile as "a parish in Whitehaven district, Cumberland; near Copeland forest, the river Eden, and the Whitehaven and Furness railway, 2½ miles SSE of Egremont.

[4] The village hall has its basis in work, commenced in 1879, on a new Haile and Wilton School.

However, comparing the occupations to the 2011 census shows the change in equality in terms of the number of people working, with 164 males and 161 female.

[1] The total numbers of houses follows a similar trend to the population of Haile, increasing to 59 households in 1931, then declining to 49 in 1961.

[10] Vacant housing is slightly higher than the national average, but only 2% have a lack of central heating whereas in England as a whole it is 2.7%.

[citation needed] According to the Office for National Statistics in England, 27% of people over 16 have a level 4 or above qualification, however in Haile it is higher at 36.7%.

A 20th-century map of the Haile area
Total population of Haile Civil Parish, Cumbria as reported by the census of population 1801 to 2011 (note that differences in census boundary may imply an increase in (relative) census area rather than in (absolute) population) [ 6 ] [ 1 ]
Qualifications of the people in Haile according to the 2011 census
Distance travelled to work on average in Haile, Cumbria and England in 2011.
Haile countryside