Lowther
Lowther is a civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria. Within the parish are the settlements of Lowther Village, Newtown or Lowther Newtown, Hackthorpe, Whale, and Melkinthorpe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 415 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Lowther (civil parish), Cumbria” and “Lowther, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lowther Castle and Church of St Michael, Lowther.
Lowther Castle
Photo: Burtonsi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lowther Castle is a ruined country house in Lowther, Cumbria, England. The estate has belonged to the Lowther family, latterly the earls of Lonsdale, since the Middle Ages.
Askham Hall
Hotel
Photo: mauldy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Askham Hall is a country house near Askham in Cumbria. It is a Grade I listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Strickland and Melkinthorpe.
Great Strickland
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Great Strickland is a village and civil parish in the Eden Valley between the Cumbrian mountains in the west and the Pennines in the east. It is 5 miles south east of Penrith, and is in the former county of Westmorland.
Melkinthorpe
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melkinthorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lowther, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is near the villages of Hackthorpe and Cliburn.
Whale
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whale is a hamlet in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, Cumbria, England. Historically in Westmorland, it is about a mile south of the village of Askham. In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 it had a population of 53. Whale is situated 1½ miles southwest of Lowther.
Lowther
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Lowther, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.60533° or 54° 36′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.717° or 2° 43′ 1″ westPopulation
415Elevation
738 feet (225 metres)Open location code
9C6VJ74M+46OpenStreetMap ID
node 1690162051OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12262550Wikidata ID
Q2191128
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Lowther” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lowther”
- Chinese: “Lowther”
- Dutch: “Lowther”
- French: “Lowther”
- Irish: “Lowther”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lowther”
- Polish: “Lowther”
- Swedish: “Lowther, Cumbria”
- Turkish: “Lowther, Cumbria”
- “Lowther”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hackthorpe and Newtown.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Village Wood and Lowther Endowed 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 “Lowther”. Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.