[1] There is a line of springs and wells which runs through the village, and these sources of water may have been the motivation for the original human settlement of this site.

Taylor[4] recorded the remains of a line of standing stones running between Newton Reigny and Newbiggin.

There is evidence that much of the land south of Carlisle provided these commodities with an extensive grid network or farms and access roads.

The layout of the village houses with crofts and garths leading off the common lands at Flusco suggests that the first organised settlement was Danish.

Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of Viking activity in Newbiggin is the silver jewellery found at Flusco Pike.

The sum of 33 shillings (£1.75) suggests that the village was comparatively wealthy, since Stainton's tithes were set at less than half that amount (16s.)

Many of the older houses in Newbiggin date from the late 17th century when the relationship between England and Scotland became more settled and raiding and reiving ceased.

The area at the north end of the village is known as ‘Clickham,' a name associated elsewhere in the UK with drove routes.

At this time the centre of the village would have been open pasture where water supplies were available for the cattle to drink.

Records exist of the Newbiggin blacksmith shoeing cattle when they were being driven between the Solway Marshes and Yorkshire.

Mr Thompson was a resident of Newbiggin and during his time in the village built the folly on Flusco Pike.

However, the quiet rural life of farming and stockbreeding was transformed in the early 19th century by the start of large-scale quarrying of limestone and the arrival of the railway.

These included public quarries, lanes and byways, village greens, lime kilns, common land and watering places.

Among the entries are a resolution to sack the mole catcher for failing in his duty, the appointment of his replacement, and an account of the annual dinner held at Greystoke Castle for Jurymen.

A challenge that they were not a legal entity was successful, and their duties and responsibilities were passed to Dacre Parish Council.

But the limestone had far greater value as a constituent of mortar, and for fertilizer, and over the next forty years a huge quarrying operation took place.

At the northern end of the village is the Hanson plc Blencowe Limestone Quarry and Blockworks.

This was originally owned by the same company who opened the brick and cement works at Edenhall, east of Penrith.

The former Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway runs through the north end of the village, where a station was situated.

Opened in 1865, it was initially a single-track line, but the section between Redhills and Blencow railway station was widened to double track in 1901.

The Joiners Arms, at the southern or Stainton end of the village was purchased by a developer, and closed in 2001.