Flookburgh
Flookburgh is an ancient village on the Cartmel peninsula in Cumbria, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire and being close to Morecambe Bay, cockle and shrimp fishing plays a big part in village life.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,310 residents
- Description: village in Cumbria (formerly Lancashire), England
- Also known as: “Flookborough” and “Flookburgh, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St John the Baptist’s Church, Flookburgh and Cark and Cartmel railway station.
St John the Baptist’s Church, Flookburgh
Church
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St John the Baptist's Church is in Station Road in the village of Flookburgh, on the Cartmel Peninsula in Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Windermere, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle.
Cark and Cartmel railway station
Railway station
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Cark & Cartmel is a railway station on the Furness line, which runs between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster. The station, situated 15+1⁄4 miles north-east of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the villages of Allithwaite, Cark, Cartmel and Flookburgh in Cumbria.
Holker Hall
Manor estate
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Holker Hall is a privately owned country house located about 2 km to the southwest of the village of Cartmel in the ceremonial county of Cumbria and historic county of Lancashire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ravenstown and Cark.
Ravenstown
Neighborhood
Ravenstown is a settlement in the Lower Holker parish of the Cartmel Peninsula in Cumbria, England. The village is mostly a housing estate which was built during First World war to serve a new airship station built in the area.
Cark
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cark is a village in Cumbria, England. It lies on the B5278 road to Haverthwaite and is ½ mile north of Flookburgh, 2 miles southwest of Cartmel and 3 miles west of Grange-over-Sands.
Allithwaite
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Allithwaite is a village in Cumbria, England, located roughly 1.2 miles west of Grange-over-Sands. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, Allithwaite, and the village of Cartmel situated to the north, are part of the civil parish of Lower Allithwaite.
Flookburgh
- Category: locality
- Location: Lower Holker, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.17438° or 54° 10′ 28″ northLongitude
-2.97379° or 2° 58′ 26″ westPopulation
1,310Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FLKOpen location code
9C6V52FG+QFOpenStreetMap ID
node 29672343OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Flookburgh” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Flookburgh”
- Dutch: “Flookburgh”
- French: “Flookburgh”
- Irish: “Flookburgh”
- Polish: “Flookburgh”
- Spanish: “Flookburgh”
- Swedish: “Flookburgh”
- Welsh: “Flookburgh”
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Highlights include Flookburgh Post Office and Lakeland Miniature Village.
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