Lammerside Castle

Lammerside Castle is a Grade II listed Medieval tower house in Wharton, Cumbria, England which has partial ruins existing today.

Photo: David Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pendragon Castle and Kirkby Stephen railway station.

Pendragon Castle

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Pendragon Castle is a ruin located in Mallerstang Dale, Cumbria, south of Kirkby Stephen, and close to the hamlet of Outhgill. It stands above a bend in the River Eden, overlooked by Wild Boar Fell to the south-west and Mallerstang Edge to the east. Pendragon Castle is situated 1½ miles southeast of Lammerside Castle.

Kirkby Stephen railway station

Railway station

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Kirkby Stephen is a railway station in Cumbria, England, on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between Carlisle and Leeds via Settle. The station is situated 1.5 miles south-west of the market town of Kirkby Stephen, just within the civil parish of Wharton, and also serves the nearby villages of Newbiggin-on-Lune and Ravenstonedale. Kirkby Stephen railway station is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Lammerside Castle.

Birkett Tunnel

Tunnel

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Birkett Tunnel is situated 1 mile south of Lammerside Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Outhgill and Kirkby Stephen.

Outhgill

Hamlet

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Outhgill is a hamlet in Mallerstang, Cumbria, England. It lies about 5 miles south of Kirkby Stephen. It is the main hamlet in the dale of Mallerstang which retains the Norse pattern of its original settlement: a series of small hamlets and isolated houses, with no village centre. Outhgill is situated 2 miles south of Lammerside Castle.

Kirkby Stephen

Town

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Kirkby Stephen is a market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It lies on the A685 and is surrounded by sparsely populated hill country, about 25 miles from the nearest larger towns, Kendal and Penrith. Kirkby Stephen is situated 2½ miles north of Lammerside Castle.

Smardale

Hamlet

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Smardale is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Waitby, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in Cumbria, England. In 1891 the parish had a population of 36. Smardale is situated 3 miles northwest of Lammerside Castle.

Lammerside Castle

Type: Ruins
Description: castle in Wharton, Cumbria, England, UK
Categories: castle, building, and historic site
Location: Wharton, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.43787° or 54° 26′ 16″ north

Longitude

-2.35218° or 2° 21′ 8″ west

Open location code

9C6VCJQX+44

OpenStreetMap ID

way 478161594

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ruins

Wikidata ID

Q20962161

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Lammerside Castle” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Lammerside Castle”
Swedish: “Lammerside Castle”
Turkish: “Lammerside Kalesi”

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