Little Salkeld
Little Salkeld is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hunsonby, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, a few miles to the north east of Penrith. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 91.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cumbria, England
- Also known as: “Little Salkeld, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Long Meg and Her Daughters and Little Meg.
Long Meg and Her Daughters
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that emerged during Neolithic, and continued into the Early Bronze Age.
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.
Long Meg Mine
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Frombowen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Long Meg Mine is a disused gypsum mine just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria in the area known as Cave Wood Valley. It was operated between 1880 and 1976.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glassonby and Eden Valley.
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 2 miles north of Little Salkeld.
Eden Valley
Photo: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Eden Valley runs northward through the county of Cumbria from its source high on the fells at Mallerstang and enters the sea 91 miles later at Carlisle.
Melmerby
Village
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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. Melmerby is situated 3 miles east of Little Salkeld.
Little Salkeld
- Category: locality
- Location: Hunsonby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.71868° or 54° 43′ 7″ northLongitude
-2.67502° or 2° 40′ 30″ westElevation
331 feet (101 metres)Open location code
9C6VP89F+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 242932603OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Little Salkeld” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Little Salkeld”
- French: “Little Salkeld”
- Irish: “Little Salkeld”
- Japanese: “リトル・サルケルド”
- Polish: “Little Salkeld”
- Swedish: “Little Salkeld”
- Welsh: “Little Salkeld”
Localities in the Area
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Highlights include River Eden and Longbank Wood.
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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 “Little Salkeld”. Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.