Oulton
Oulton is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Woodside, near the small town of Wigton, in the Cumberland district of the county of Cumbria, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bob Jenkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: hamlet in Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Oulton, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wigton railway station and Church of St Mary.
Wigton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wigton railway station is a railway station serving the market town of Wigton in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary is situated 1½ miles south of Oulton.
St Andrew’s Church, Aikton
Church
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church stands near the village of Aikton, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Carlisle, the archdeaconry of Carlisle, and the diocese of Carlisle. St Andrew’s Church, Aikton is situated 2½ miles northeast of Oulton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aikhead and Biglands.
Aikhead
Locality
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aikhead is a hamlet in Cumbria, England, within the Lake District. It is about one and a half miles northwest of Wigton, and is in the civil parish of Woodside. The hamlet was the residence of John Rooke, an English geologist.
Biglands
Hamlet
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biglands is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It is located to the north of Gamelsby, and east of the River Wampool. It is not the location of Milefortlet 1, the first milefortlet to the west of Hadrian's Wall, which is located on the coast overlooking the Solway Firth at Biglands House Farm, about a mile to the west of Bowness-on-Solway and just to the south of Herdhill Scar.
Wigton
Town
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wigton is a market town in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It lies just outside the Lake District. Wigton is at the centre of the Solway Plain, between the Caldbeck Fells and the Solway coast. Wigton is situated 1½ miles south of Oulton.
Oulton
- Categories: hamlet and locality
- Location: Woodside, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.84684° or 54° 50′ 49″ northLongitude
-3.17215° or 3° 10′ 20″ westElevation
98 feet (30 metres)Open location code
9C6RRRWH+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 29281804OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Oulton” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Oulton”
- French: “Oulton”
- Polish: “Oulton”
- Swedish: “Oulton, Cumbria”
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Highlights include Wigton Hospital and Social Services.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Oulton”. Photo: Bob Jenkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.