Wetheral Priory Gatehouse

Wetheral Priory Gatehouse is a 15th-century stone fortification in Wetheral, Cumbria. The priory was founded at the start of the 12th century and the gatehouse controlled the entrance to its outer courtyard.

Photo: Lynne Kirton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include River Eden and Wetheral railway station.

River Eden

River

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The River Eden is a river that flows through Cumbria, England. It rises on Black Fell Moss, near the village of Outhgill, and runs in a generally north-westerly direction through the Vale of Eden and Solway Plain before reaching the sea at the Solway Firth.

Wetheral railway station

Railway station

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Wetheral is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 4 miles 7 chains east of Carlisle, serves the villages of Great Corby and Wetheral in the Cumberland district, Cumbria, England. Wetheral railway station is situated 1,800 feet north of Wetheral Priory Gatehouse.

Corby Castle

Building

Photo: Lynne Kirton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Corby Castle is a Grade I listed building and ancestral home of a cadet branch of the prominent Howard family situated on the southern edge of the village of Great Corby in northern Cumbria, England. Corby Castle is situated 960 feet east of Wetheral Priory Gatehouse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Great Corby and Burnrigg.

Great Corby

Village

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Great Corby is a village in northern Cumbria, England, above the eastern bank of a wooded gorge on the River Eden. Directly across the river from Great Corby is the village of Wetheral.

Burnrigg

Hamlet

Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Burnrigg is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It is located to the east of Carlisle. In 1887, The British Architect said "on a site particularly high and open, are two small two- storied blocks of tenements, in all thirty-two, two small rooms to each, no other accommodation except four privies".

Broadwath

Hamlet

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Broadwath is a hamlet in the Cumberland district, in the English county of Cumbria. Broadwath is on Cairn Beck. Nearby settlements include the villages of Wetheral, Warwick Bridge, Great Corby and Heads Nook.

Wetheral Priory Gatehouse

Type: Historic building
Description: Grade I listed building in Wetheral, United Kingdom
Categories: gatehouse, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Wetheral, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.87901° or 54° 52′ 44″ north

Longitude

-2.83058° or 2° 49′ 50″ west

Open location code

9C6VV5H9+JQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 334864030

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=building

Wikidata ID

Q3403072

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to French—“Wetheral Priory Gatehouse” goes by many names.

Chinese: “維度修道院城門”
French: “prieuré de Wetheral”
French: “Prieuré de Wetheral”

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