Brough Sowerby
Brough Sowerby is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is located 22.3 miles southeast of the town of Penrith.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 134 residents
- Description: village in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Brough Sowerby, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brough Castle and Verterae.
Brough Castle
Ruins
Photo: Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brough Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Brough, Cumbria, England. The castle was built by William Rufus around 1092 within the old Roman fort of Verterae to protect a key route through the Pennine Mountains.
Verterae
Archaeological site
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Verterae was a Roman fort in the modern-day village of Brough, Cumbria, England. Occupied between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, it protected a key Roman road in the north of England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brough and Great Musgrave.
Brough
Village
Photo: Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brough, sometimes known as Brough under Stainmore, is a village and civil parish in the historic county of Westmorland and the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, within the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, on the western fringe of the Pennines near Stainmore.
Great Musgrave
Village
Photo: William Metcalfe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Musgrave is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Musgrave, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is about a mile west of Brough. Great Musgrave is situated 1½ miles west of Brough Sowerby.
Helbeck
Hamlet
Photo: David Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helbeck is a settlement and civil parish near the village of Brough, in Westmorland and Furness, in the county of Cumbria, England. There is a wood called Helbeck Wood nearby. Helbeck is situated 1½ miles north of Brough Sowerby.
Brough Sowerby
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Brough Sowerby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.51002° or 54° 30′ 36″ northLongitude
-2.32032° or 2° 19′ 13″ westPopulation
134Elevation
594 feet (181 metres)Open location code
9C6VGM6H+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 26261017OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2654514Wikidata ID
Q2615053
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Brough Sowerby” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Brough Sowerby”
- Chinese: “Brough Sowerby”
- Dutch: “Brough Sowerby”
- French: “Brough Sowerby”
- Irish: “Brough Sowerby”
- Ladin: “Brough Sowerby”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Brough Sowerby”
- Polish: “Brough Sowerby”
- Swedish: “Brough Sowerby”
- Turkish: “Brough Sowerby”
- Welsh: “Brough Sowerby”
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Localities in the Area
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