Maughanby

Places of Interest

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.

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.

Lacy’s Caves

Cave

Photo: Charles Rispin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lacy's Caves are a series of five chambers in the red sandstone cliff of the River Eden, just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria, England, near Nunnery, Cumbria, at grid reference NY564383.

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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.

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.

Eden Valley

Photo: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Eden Valley runs northward through the county of Cumbria from its source high on the fells at Mallerstang and enters the sea 91 miles later at Carlisle.

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