Hunsonby
Hunsonby is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, 7 miles north east of Penrith. The parish is located 28 miles south east of the city of Carlisle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 461 residents
- Description: village in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Hunsonby, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Long Meg and Her Daughters and Little Meg.
Long Meg and Her Daughters
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that emerged during Neolithic, and continued into the Early Bronze Age.
Little Meg
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Meg is a small circle of large kerb stones which probably surrounded a Bronze Age kerb cairn. It is close to the village of Langwathby to the north-east of Penrith in the English county of Cumbria and is 650 metres north-east of the more famous stone circle of Long Meg and Her Daughters.
Langwathby railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andrew Bone, CC BY 2.0.
Langwathby is a railway station on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between Carlisle and Leeds via Settle. The station, situated 19 miles 59 chains south-east of Carlisle, serves the village of Langwathby in Cumbria, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Salkeld and Glassonby.
Little Salkeld
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Salkeld is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hunsonby, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, a few miles to the north east of Penrith. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 91.
Glassonby
Village
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glassonby is a small village and civil parish in the Eden Valley, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It lies about 3 miles south south east of Kirkoswald. Glassonby is situated 2 miles north of Hunsonby.
Melmerby
Village
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Melmerby is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. It is a small village with a population of around 200. The village is 9 miles to the east of Penrith, which is a thriving community with immediate access to Junction 40 of the M6 motorway and a main-line railway station serving London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Melmerby is situated 2½ miles northeast of Hunsonby.
Hunsonby
- Categories: civil parish, village, and locality
- Location: Hunsonby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.71363° or 54° 42′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.65065° or 2° 39′ 2″ westPopulation
461Elevation
374 feet (114 metres)Open location code
9C6VP87X+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 242932606OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
12262704Wikidata ID
Q2641847
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Hunsonby” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Хунсонбй”
- Cebuano: “Hunsonby”
- Chinese: “Hunsonby”
- Dutch: “Hunsonby”
- French: “Hunsonby”
- Irish: “Hunsonby”
- Italian: “Hunsonby”
- Japanese: “アディンガム”
- Japanese: “ハンソンビー”
- Ladin: “Hunsonby”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hunsonby”
- Persian: “هانسونبی”
- Polish: “Hunsonby”
- Swedish: “Hunsonby”
- Turkish: “Hunsonby”
- Welsh: “Hunsonby”
- “Hunsonby”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Village Green and Hunsonby Swimming Club.
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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 “Hunsonby”. Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.