Great Strickland
Great Strickland is a village and civil parish in the Eden Valley between the Cumbrian mountains in the west and the Pennines in the east. It is 5 miles south east of Penrith, and is in the former county of Westmorland.Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 258 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Great Strickland, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lowther Castle and Cliburn Moss.
Lowther Castle
Photo: Burtonsi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lowther Castle is a ruined country house in Lowther, Cumbria, England. The estate has belonged to the Lowther family, latterly the earls of Lonsdale, since the Middle Ages. Lowther Castle is situated 2 miles west of Great Strickland.
Cliburn Moss
Nature reserve
Cliburn Moss is a national nature reserve located northwest of the village of Cliburn, in the county of Cumbria, England. It contains wetland habitats, produced by a hollow in the glacial valley. Cliburn Moss is situated 2 miles northeast of Great Strickland.
Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary is situated 2 miles south of Great Strickland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melkinthorpe and Whale.
Melkinthorpe
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melkinthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lowther, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is near the villages of Hackthorpe and Cliburn.
Whale
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whale is a hamlet in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, Cumbria, England. Historically in Westmorland, it is about a mile south of the village of Askham. In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 it had a population of 53. Whale is situated 2½ miles west of Great Strickland.
Helton
Village
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helton is a village in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the English county of Cumbria. It is about a mile south of the village of Askham. Circa 1870, it had a population of 180 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Helton is situated 3 miles west of Great Strickland.
Great Strickland
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Great Strickland, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.59866° or 54° 35′ 55″ northLongitude
-2.68468° or 2° 41′ 5″ westPopulation
258Elevation
643 feet (196 metres)Open location code
9C6VH8X8+F4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2321710044OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648011Wikidata ID
Q2180492
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Great Strickland” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Great Strickland”
- Chinese: “Great Strickland”
- Dutch: “Great Strickland”
- French: “Great Strickland”
- Irish: “Great Strickland”
- Italian: “Great Strickland”
- Ladin: “Great Strickland”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Great Strickland”
- Persian: “گریت استریکلند”
- Polish: “Great Strickland”
- Silesian: “Great Strickland”
- Swedish: “Great Strickland”
- Turkish: “Great Strickland”
- Welsh: “Great Strickland”
- “Great Strickland”
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