Melmerby
Melmerby is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. It is a small village with a population of around 200. The village is 9 miles to the east of Penrith, which is a thriving community with immediate access to Junction 40 of the M6 motorway and a main-line railway station serving London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 249 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, UK
- Also known as: “Melmerby, Cumbria”
Photo: PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John the Baptist and Little Meg.
Little Meg
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Meg is a small circle of large kerb stones which probably surrounded a Bronze Age kerb cairn. It is close to the village of Langwathby to the north-east of Penrith in the English county of Cumbria and is 650 metres north-east of the more famous stone circle of Long Meg and Her Daughters. Little Meg is situated 2½ miles west of Melmerby.
Church of St Luke
Church
Photo: Simon Ledingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Luke is situated 2 miles southeast of Melmerby.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gamblesby and Unthank.
Gamblesby
Village
Photo: Charles Rispin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gamblesby is a village near Melmerby, and former civil parish, now in the parish of Glassonby, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.
Unthank
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Unthank is a village near Gamblesby in the civil parish of Glassonby in Cumbria, England. It is first mentioned in writing as Unthanke in 1332. Unthank is situated 2 miles north of Melmerby.
Glassonby
Village
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glassonby is a small village and civil parish in the Eden Valley, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It lies about 3 miles south south east of Kirkoswald. Glassonby is situated 2½ miles northwest of Melmerby.
Melmerby
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Ousby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.7283° or 54° 43′ 42″ northLongitude
-2.59897° or 2° 35′ 56″ westPopulation
249Elevation
594 feet (181 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MMLOpen location code
9C6VPCH2+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 242932609OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Melmerby” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Melmerby, Cumbria”
- Dutch: “Melmerby”
- French: “Melmerby”
- Irish: “Melmerby”
- Ladin: “Melmerby (Cumbria)”
- Ladin: “Melmerby”
- Polish: “Melmerby”
- Spanish: “Melmerby, Cumbria”
- Spanish: “Melmerby”
- Swedish: “Melmerby, Cumbria”
- Turkish: “Melmerby, Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Melmerby, Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Melmerby”
- “Melmerby”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Green and Melmerby Village Hall.
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