The modern Civil Parish of Millom Without comprises a number of villages and many outlying farms and settlements.  There is considerable evidence of habitation going back several thousand years BCE.  The most notable existing structure is the large stone circle at Swinside.

 

Until the mid 19th Century the village now called 'The Green' was known as 'Rally Green' as this is where the farm stock was gathered together ('rallied') before and after it crossed the estuary on the route below the present Green Road Railway Station.  The village retains one public house 'The Punch Bowl'.

 

The railway came to the area in the autumn of 1850 having been built down the coast from Whitehaven to Broughton while, at much the same time, a line was built from Barrow to Broughton (there was no Foxfield station at that time).  There were stations at Green Road, Underhill and one at Millom, then called Holborn Hill.

 

Hallthwaites had until the 1930's a thriving woolen industry, carding, dying and weaving and it's demise was not through lack of orders, but rather the inability to keep up with demand on the old style machinery used.  The local primary school, founded in 1714, is sited here and enjoys strong local support.

 

The Village of 'The Hill' was known until comparatively recent times as 'Hill-in-Millom' (Millom being the historic ecclesiastical parish from which the, then new, nearby town decided to take its name in the mid 19th century).  Until well into the 19th century there were a variety of mines at The Hill, mainly sulphur but also some iron.  There also remains a, well concealed, quarry from which high-grade road stone is produced.

Kirksanton, to the west of the parish was the home to a brewing and farming family who operated the former 'Bank Springs Brewery' until the mid 20th century.  There were also a number of unsuccessful iron-ore mines there in the late 19th century and early 20th century.  Kirksanton has two notable ancient standing stones known as the 'giants grave'.

 

The whole area is rural with the largest settlement at The Green.  Millom Without completly surrounds, on the landward side, the nearby town of Millom.  Millom Without also includes a large part of the river Duddon's estuarial flood-plane with it's places of Special Scientific Interest and, in addition, extensive fell and moor land within the Lake District national Park.  The parish is large and spacely populated