title: Little Musgrave
text: # Little Musgrave
  
  Little Musgrave is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Musgrave, in the Eden district of Cumbria, England. In 1891 the parish had a population of 52.
  
  ## Location
  
  The village is situated at 500 ft above sea level in the upper reaches of the Eden Valley just south of the Eden River and two and one-half miles west-south-west of Brough.
  
  The village lies within the historic county of Westmorland.
  
  ## History
  
  Little Musgrave was formerly a township in Crosby-Garret parish, from 1866 Little Musgrave was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 30 December 1894 and merged with "Great Musgrave" to form "Musgrave".
  
  ## Notable residents
  
  * William Edmundson (1627—1712), founder of the Quaker faith in Ireland.
  