Whiteclosegate | |
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Croft Road, Whiteclosegate | |
Location in the City of Carlisle district, Cumbria Location within Cumbria | |
OS grid reference | NY410577 |
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District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | CARLISLE |
Postcode district | CA3 |
Dialling code | 01228 |
Police | Cumbria |
Fire | Cumbria |
Ambulance | North West |
UK Parliament | |
Whiteclosegate is a hamlet in the Carlisle district of the county of Cumbria, England.
It is on the B6264 road. Nearby settlements include the city of Carlisle, the villages of Houghton and Rickerby, the hamlets of Linstock and Tarraby and the residential areas of Kingstown and Moorville.
For transport, in addition to the B6264, the A689 road, A595 road, A69 road and A6 road and the M6 motorway are nearby. There is also Carlisle railway station about a mile and a half away.
The A595 is a primary route in Cumbria, in Northern England that starts in Carlisle, passes through Whitehaven and goes close to Workington, Cockermouth and Wigton. It passes Sellafield and Ravenglass before ending at the Dalton-in-Furness by-pass, in southern Cumbria, where it joins the A590 trunk road. The road is mostly single carriageway, apart from in central Carlisle, where it passes the castle as a busy dual carriageway road named Castle Way, and prior to that as Bridge Street and Church Street, where it passes close to the McVitie's or Carr's biscuit factory. The Lillyhall bypass is also dual carriageway.
The A689 is a road in northern England that runs east from the A595, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) to the west of Carlisle in Cumbria, to Hartlepool in County Durham.
Plumpton or Plumpton Wall is a small village about 4 miles (6 km) north of Penrith, Cumbria, England.
Stanwix is a district of Carlisle, Cumbria in North West England. The ward population had a population taken at the 2011 census of 5,934. It is located on the north side of River Eden, across from Carlisle city centre. Although long counted as a suburb it did not officially become part of the city until 1912 when part of the civil parish of Stanwix became part of the parish, city and municipal borough of Carlisle. Further areas were added to the city, which was by then a county borough, in 1934 and 1951. The remaining part of the parish was eventually renamed Stanwix Rural in 1966.
Crosby-on-Eden is the combined name for two small villages, High Crosby and Low Crosby, within the civil parish of Stanwix Rural near Carlisle, Cumbria, England.
Keisley is a small hamlet in the English county of Cumbria. It is located in the Dufton civil parish and the Eden district.
Linstock is a village in the civil parish of Stanwix Rural, in the Carlisle District, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is a few miles away from the city of Carlisle and near the River Eden. Circa 1870, it had a population of 205 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.
Park Broom is a hamlet in the Carlisle District, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is a few miles away from the small city of Carlisle and near the River Eden.
Brunstock is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stanwix Rural, in the Carlisle district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Circa 1870, it had a population of 84 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.
Tarraby is a hamlet in the Carlisle district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Circa 1870, it had a population of 106 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.
Great Orton is a village in the parish of Orton, in the City of Carlisle district of the English county of Cumbria. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 453. Historically, the village is part of Cumberland.
Orton Rigg is a hamlet in the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England.
Southwaite is a small village in the parish of Hesket, in the Eden District, in the English county of Cumbria.
Newton Arlosh is a village in the civil parish of Holme East Waver in Cumbria, United Kingdom.
Oughterby is a hamlet in the Allerdale District, in the English county of Cumbria. It is near the city of Carlisle and the village of Kirkbampton. For transport there is the B5307 road nearby.
Dyffryn, often Duffryn, is a small village in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. It is located 4.8 miles (7.7 km) north of the town centre of Barry, roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) west of St Lythans and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of St. Nicholas. It lies off the A4226 road, along St Lythans Road, directly east of Walterston. Dyffryn is best known for its Dyffryn Gardens and its megalithic monuments nearby including the Tinkinswood and St Lythans Burial Chamber and also the caves of nearby Goldsland. The River Waycock flows through the village.
Edderside is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located approximately one mile as the crow files to the south-east of Mawbray, or two-and-a-half miles by road, and a similar distance east of Salta, and north-east of Allonby. The small hamlet of Jericho is located less than a mile to the north-east. Approximately 23 miles to the north-east is the city of Carlisle. Allonby Bay, an inlet of the Solway Firth, is one-and-a-half miles to the south-west, as is the B5300 coast road which runs between Silloth-on-Solway, six-and-a-half miles to the north, and Maryport, six miles to the south.
Milecastle 65 (Tarraby) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall.
Goodyhills is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert, in northern Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located 1.5 miles east of the village of Mawbray, and 23 miles west of the city of Carlisle.
Kelsick is a hamlet in the civil parish of Dundraw in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km) southeast of Abbeytown, 0.9 miles (1.4 km) northwest of Dundraw, and 14.5 miles (23.3 km) west of Carlisle, Cumbria's county town. Kelsick is accessed by two side-roads off the B5302 road, which runs between Silloth and Wigton.
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