Village Wood
Village Wood is a forest in Lowther, Westmorland and Furness, England. Village Wood is situated nearby to the village Lowther, as well as near Hackthorpe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lowther Castle and Clifton Moor Skirmish.
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.
Clifton Moor Skirmish
Battlefield
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Clifton Moor Skirmish took place on the evening of Wednesday 18 December during the Jacobite rising of 1745. Following the decision of the council of Charles Edward Stuart to retreat from Derby on 6 December, the fast-moving Jacobite army split into three…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Great Strickland and Helton.
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.
Helton
Village
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helton is a village in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the English county of Cumbria. It is about a mile south of the village of Askham. Circa 1870, it had a population of 180 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.
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.
Village Wood
Latitude
54.6049° or 54° 36′ 18″ northLongitude
-2.7186° or 2° 43′ 7″ westOpen location code
9C6VJ73J+WGOpenStreetMap ID
way 1424971812OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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