Moorend Plantation

Moorend Plantation is a forest in Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland and Furness, England. Moorend Plantation is situated nearby to the locality Wharton Fell, as well as near Keld Brow.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kirkby Stephen railway station and Kirkby Stephen East railway station.

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 East railway station

Railway station

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Kirkby Stephen East railway station was situated on the South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway between Barnard Castle and Tebay. It served the town of Kirkby Stephen in England and was a junction station for the Eden Valley Railway.

Lammerside Castle

Ruins

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kirkby Stephen and Ravenstonedale.

Kirkby Stephen

Town

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Kirkby Stephen is a market town and civil parish in 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.

Ravenstonedale

Village

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Ravenstonedale is a village and large civil parish in Cumbria, on the watershed between the River Lune and River Eden. The village lies 4 miles south west of Kirkby Stephen. The parish includes the village of Newbiggin-on-Lune and several smaller settlements including Bowderdale, Brownber, Greenside, Stennerskeugh, Wath and Weasdale.

Smardale

Hamlet

Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Moorend Plantation

Type: Forest
Location: Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.4466° or 54° 26′ 48″ north

Longitude

-2.3707° or 2° 22′ 15″ west

Open location code

9C6VCJWH+MP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 59112661

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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