Gosforth
Gosforth is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Lake District, in Cumberland, England. It is situated on the A595 road between Whitehaven and Barrow-in-Furness.Photo: Nigel Monckton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 961 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Gosforth, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gosforth Cross and St Mary’s Church, Gosforth.
Gosforth Cross
Archaeological site
Photo: English Lakes, Public domain.
The Gosforth Cross is a large stone monument in St Mary's churchyard at Gosforth in the English county of Cumbria, dating to the first half of the 10th century AD.
St Mary’s Church, Gosforth
Church
Photo: Nigel Monckton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's Church in the village of Gosforth, Cumbria, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seascale and Calder Bridge.
Seascale
Photo: Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seascale is a village and civil parish on the Irish Sea coast of Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland. The parish had a population of 1,754 in 2011, barely decreasing by 0.4% in 2021.
Calder Bridge
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Calder Bridge is a small village in Cumbria in England. It is located between the hamlets of Gosforth and Beckermet and lies on the River Calder. It is around 1 mile northeast from the Sellafield nuclear plant—Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station was the world's first major nuclear power station when it opened in 1956. Calder Bridge is situated 2½ miles northwest of Gosforth.
Holmrook
Village
Photo: P stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holmrook is a linear village in the English county of Cumbria. It lies along the A595 road on the west banks of the River Irt. The B5344 road connects it to Drigg, with its railway station less than two miles to the west. Holmrook is situated 2½ miles south of Gosforth.
Gosforth
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Gosforth, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.4186° or 54° 25′ 7″ northLongitude
-3.43894° or 3° 26′ 20″ westPopulation
961Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GFTOpen location code
9C6RCH96+CCOpenStreetMap ID
node 29539574OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Gosforth” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gosforth”
- Chinese: “Gosforth”
- Chinese: “戈斯弗斯”
- Chinese: “戈斯福斯”
- Dutch: “Gosforth”
- French: “Gosforth”
- Irish: “Gosforth”
- Italian: “Gosforth (Cumbria)”
- Italian: “Gosforth”
- Japanese: “ゴスフォース (カンブリア地方)”
- Ladin: “Gosforth”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gosforth”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gosforth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gosforth i Cumbria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gosforth”
- Norwegian: “Gosforth”
- Persian: “گاسفورث، کامبریا”
- Polish: “Gosforth”
- Spanish: “Gosforth”
- Swedish: “Gosforth (parish)”
- Swedish: “Gosforth, Cumbria”
- Swedish: “Gosforth”
- Turkish: “Gosforth, Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Gosforth, Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Gosforth”
- “Gosforth”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Square and Gosforth Village Hall.
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