Church of St John the Baptist
Church of St John the Baptist is a church in Ousby, Westmorland and Furness, England. Church of St John the Baptist is situated nearby to the community center Melmerby Village Hall, as well as near the forest Bowstrings Wood.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church building in Ousby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Saint John the Baptist, Melmerby” and “St John the Baptist’s Church, Melmerby”
Places of Interest Nearby
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. Long Meg and Her Daughters is situated 2½ miles west of Church of St John the Baptist.
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. Little Meg is situated 2 miles west of Church of St John the Baptist.
Church of St Luke
Church
Photo: Simon Ledingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Luke is situated 2½ miles southeast of Church of St John the Baptist.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melmerby and Gamblesby.
Melmerby
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Gamblesby
Village
Photo: Charles Rispin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gamblesby is a village near Melmerby, and former civil parish, now in the parish of Glassonby, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.
Unthank
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Unthank is a village near Gamblesby in the civil parish of Glassonby in Cumbria, England. It is first mentioned in writing as Unthanke in 1332. Unthank is situated 2 miles north of Church of St John the Baptist.
Church of St John the Baptist
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Ousby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.73045° or 54° 43′ 50″ northLongitude
-2.60559° or 2° 36′ 20″ westOpen location code
9C6VP9JV+5QOpenStreetMap ID
way 205742485OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q26437988
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