Bridekirk
Bridekirk is a village and civil parish in the Cumberland district in the county of Cumbria, England. It is around 3.2 kilometres north of the Derwent river and about the same distance from the nearest large town of Cockermouth just south of the river.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 682 residents
- Description: hamlet and civil parish in Cumbria
- Also known as: “Bridekirk, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cockermouth Library and Christ Church.
Cockermouth Library
Library
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cockermouth Library is situated 2 miles south of Bridekirk.
Christ Church
Church
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Christ Church is situated 2 miles south of Bridekirk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Redmain and Tallentire.
Redmain
Hamlet
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Redmain is a small hamlet in the Isel Valley and parish of Blindcrake within the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. The hamlet lies on the south-facing slopes above the River Derwent, in an elevated position of 475 feet, giving panoramas across the Isel Valley and Lake District Fells.
Tallentire
Village
Photo: Nigel Monckton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tallentire is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bridekirk, in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is about 2.5 miles north of Cockermouth.
Dovenby
Village
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dovenby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bridekirk, in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is on the A594 road and is 2.5 miles north west of Cockermouth, 2.6 miles east of Dearham, 4.5 miles east of Maryport, 7.4 miles north east of Workington and 27 miles south west of Carlisle.
Bridekirk
- Categories: hamlet, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Bridekirk, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.69042° or 54° 41′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.3695° or 3° 22′ 10″ westPopulation
682Elevation
377 feet (115 metres)Open location code
9C6RMJRJ+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 29362820OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2654765Wikidata ID
Q2434241
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Bridekirk” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bridekirk”
- Chinese: “Bridekirk”
- Dutch: “Bridekirk”
- French: “Bridekirk”
- Irish: “Bridekirk”
- Ladin: “Bridekirk”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bridekirk”
- Polish: “Bridekirk”
- Swedish: “Bridekirk”
- Turkish: “Bridekirk”
- Welsh: “Bridekirk”
- “Bridekirk”
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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 Wikipedia page “Bridekirk”. Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.