Glassonby
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.Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 339 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, England
- Also known as: “Glassonby, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Little Meg and Long Meg and Her Daughters.
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 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.
Lacy’s Caves
Cave
Photo: Charles Rispin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lacy's Caves are a series of five chambers in the red sandstone cliff of the River Eden, just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria, England, near Nunnery, Cumbria, at grid reference NY564383.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Salkeld and Eden Valley.
Little Salkeld
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Little Salkeld is situated 2 miles south of Glassonby.
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.
Kirkoswald
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkoswald is a village, civil parish, and former market town located in Westmorland and Furness, England, about 9 miles from Penrith. The village is in the historic county of Cumberland. Kirkoswald is situated 2 miles northwest of Glassonby.
Glassonby
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Glassonby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.7432° or 54° 44′ 36″ northLongitude
-2.65774° or 2° 39′ 28″ westPopulation
339Elevation
568 feet (173 metres)Open location code
9C6VP8VR+7WOpenStreetMap ID
node 242932604OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648560Wikidata ID
Q3242102
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Glassonby” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Glassonby”
- Chinese: “Glassonby”
- Czech: “Glassonby”
- Dutch: “Glassonby”
- French: “Glassonby”
- Irish: “Glassonby”
- Italian: “Glassonby”
- Japanese: “グラソンビー”
- Ladin: “Glassonby”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Glassonby”
- Persian: “گلسونبی”
- Polish: “Glassonby”
- Swedish: “Glassonby”
- Turkish: “Glassonby”
- Welsh: “Glassonby”
- “Glassonby”
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