Wharton
Wharton is a civil parish near Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It was historically part of Westmorland. It has a population of 31.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 41 residents
- Description: civil parish in Eden, Cumbria, England
- Also known as: “Wharton (civil parish), Cumbria” and “Wharton, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pendragon Castle and Kirkby Stephen railway station.
Pendragon Castle
Photo: Matthew Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pendragon Castle is a ruin located in Mallerstang Dale, Cumbria, south of Kirkby Stephen, and close to the hamlet of Outhgill. It stands above a bend in the River Eden, overlooked by Wild Boar Fell to the south-west and Mallerstang Edge to the east.
Kirkby Stephen railway station
Railway station
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Kirkby Stephen is a railway station in Cumbria, England, on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between Carlisle and Leeds via Settle. The station is situated 1.5 miles south-west of the market town of Kirkby Stephen, just within the civil parish of Wharton, and also serves the nearby villages of Newbiggin-on-Lune and Ravenstonedale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkby Stephen and Ravenstonedale.
Kirkby Stephen
Town
Kirkby Stephen is a market town and civil parish in Cumbria, England. It lies on the A685 and is surrounded by sparsely populated hill country, about 25 miles from the nearest larger towns, Kendal and Penrith. Kirkby Stephen is situated 3 miles north of Wharton.
Ravenstonedale
Village
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Ravenstonedale is a village and large civil parish in Cumbria, on the watershed between the River Lune and River Eden. The village lies 4 miles south west of Kirkby Stephen. Ravenstonedale is situated 3 miles west of Wharton.
Mallerstang
Hamlet
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Mallerstang is a civil parish in the extreme east of Cumbria, and, geographically, a dale at the head of the upper Eden Valley. Originally part of Westmorland, it lies about 6 miles south of the nearest town, Kirkby Stephen. Mallerstang is situated 2½ miles southeast of Wharton.
Wharton
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Wharton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wharton (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Wharton”
- Chinese: “Wharton”
- Dutch: “Wharton”
- French: “Wharton”
- Irish: “Wharton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wharton (Cumbria)”
- Polish: “Wharton”
- Swedish: “Wharton, Cumbria”
- Swedish: “Wharton”
- Turkish: “Wharton, Cumbria”
- “Wharton”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Wharton”. Photo: John Illingworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.