Aikton
Aikton is a small village in the north of the English county of Cumbria. The nearest town is Wigton 3 miles away, and the nearest city is Carlisle at 8 miles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 467 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Aikton, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Andrew’s Church, Aikton.
St Andrew’s Church, Aikton
Church
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Andrew's Church stands near the village of Aikton, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Carlisle, the archdeaconry of Carlisle, and the diocese of Carlisle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Bampton and Biglands.
Little Bampton
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Bampton is a village in Cumbria situated 6 miles outside the market town of Wigton and 8 miles west of Carlisle, England. The village comprises approximately 40 houses, some dating back to the 18th century.
Biglands
Hamlet
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biglands is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It is located to the north of Gamelsby, and east of the River Wampool. It is not the location of Milefortlet 1, the first milefortlet to the west of Hadrian's Wall, which is located on the coast overlooking the Solway Firth at Biglands House Farm, about a mile to the west of Bowness-on-Solway and just to the south of Herdhill Scar.
Wiggonby
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wiggonby is a hamlet in parish of Aikton and the district of Cumberland, in the English county of Cumbria. Historically in Cumberland, it seven miles away from the city of Carlisle and 2 1⁄4 miles from the village of Great Orton. Wiggonby is situated 1½ miles east of Aikton.
Aikton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Aikton, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.87029° or 54° 52′ 13″ northLongitude
-3.13259° or 3° 7′ 57″ westPopulation
467Elevation
121 feet (37 metres)Open location code
9C6RVVC8+4XOpenStreetMap ID
node 5682950569OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2657630Wikidata ID
Q3242642
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Aikton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Aikton”
- Chinese: “Aikton”
- Dutch: “Aikton”
- French: “Aikton”
- Irish: “Aikton”
- Italian: “Aikton”
- Ladin: “Aikton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aikton”
- Persian: “آیکتن”
- Polish: “Aikton”
- Swedish: “Aikton”
- Turkish: “Aikton”
- Welsh: “Aikton”
- “Aikton”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Biglands Bog Nature Reserve and Wiggonby CofE School.
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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 “Aikton”. Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.