Castle Carrock
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- Type: Village with 320 residents
- Description: village in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Castle Carrock, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Talkin Church and Talkin Tarn.
Talkin Tarn
Lake
Photo: Cheese360, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Talkin Tarn is a glacial lake and country park near Brampton, Cumbria, England. The lake is in a kettle hole, formed 10,000 years ago by mass glacial action. Talkin Tarn is situated 2 miles north of Castle Carrock.
Gelt Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Gelt Bridge or Gelt Viaduct is a skew arch railway viaduct in the parish of Hayton, east of Carlisle in Cumbria, north west England. Built from 1832, it is one of the earliest and largest skew bridges in Britain. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Talkin and Faugh.
Talkin
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Talkin is a village in Cumbria, England, close to Talkin Tarn.
Faugh
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Faugh is a small village situated to the East of the city of Carlisle and within 15 minutes of the Scottish Border. The village has always been English however the land of Cumberland was once Scottish with The String of Horses Inn pre-dating the Jacobites rising. Faugh is situated 2 miles west of Castle Carrock.
Farlam
Village
Photo: John Charlton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Farlam is a village and civil parish in the Cumberland district, in the English county of Cumbria. The village is about 2+1⁄4 miles southeast of the small town of Brampton and 9+1⁄2 miles east of the city of Carlisle. Farlam is situated 2 miles northeast of Castle Carrock.
Castle Carrock
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Castle Carrock, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.89149° or 54° 53′ 29″ northLongitude
-2.71545° or 2° 42′ 56″ westPopulation
320Elevation
472 feet (144 metres)Open location code
9C6VV7RM+HROpenStreetMap ID
node 5719984449OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2653602Wikidata ID
Q2303175
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Castle Carrock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Castle Carrock”
- Chinese: “Castle Carrock”
- Dutch: “Castle Carrock”
- French: “Castle Carrock”
- Irish: “Castle Carrock”
- Ladin: “Castle Carrock”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Castle Carrock”
- Persian: “کسل کاروک”
- Polish: “Castle Carrock”
- Swedish: “Castle Carrock”
- Turkish: “Castle Carrock”
- Welsh: “Castle Carrock”
- “Castle Carrock”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St. Peter’s Church and Castle Carrock Reservoir.
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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 Wikivoyage page “Castle Carrock”. Photo: Rose and Trev Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
