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Kirkandrews Middle , civil parish in Carlisle, Cumbria, England
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Kirkandrews or Kirkanders may refer to: * Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway, hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland *Kirkandrews-on-Eden, village and former civil parish in Beaumont civil parish, Carlisle, Cumbria, England **Kirkandrews railway station, a former station *Kirkandrews-on-Esk Kirkandrews (also known as Kirkandrews-on-Esk distinguishing it from Kirkandrews-on-Eden), is a civil parish in City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Moat. At the 2011 census it had a population of 493. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkandrews, Dumfries And Galloway
Kirkandrews, sometimes written as Kirkanders in older documents, is a coastal hamlet about west-southwest of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It sits in farmland at the head of Kirkandrews Bay, an inlet of Wigtown Bay. The history of Kirkandrews' name is not altogether clear. Some authors have suggested that it was named for a Northumbrian or Irish saint who established a church here in the first millennium; certainly there was an ancient church at the site, but most recent scholarship suggests that both the original church and its name have been lost, and that a new church was built and dedicated to St Andrew, the apostle and patron saint of Scotland, at some point before 1174. Evidence of human habitation at the site dates to the Iron Age, and a Christian church has been there since the early medieval period. Originally an independent parish, it was amalgamated into the parish of Borgue in the 1790s. There was a barony of Kirkandrews, which changed h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkandrews-on-Eden
Kirkandrews-on-Eden or Kirkandrews-upon-Eden, in the past known as Kirkanders, is a village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Beaumont, in the Carlisle District of the county of Cumbria, England. The village is found 4 miles North-West of Carlisle. Kirkandrews forms part of the Barony of Burgh together with the nearby villages Monkhill, Grinsdale, Rattlingate and Burgh-by-Sands. The civil parish was merged into Beaumont in 1934. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 145. History Hadrian's Wall Path and the Vallum run through the village. The village is 500m from the River Eden along which the Cumbrian Coastal Walk runs. It contains several examples of interesting listed buildings, Hollow Creek Farm; built in 1760, The Manor House, The Croft; built in the 1600s, The Beeches, Beech House are Grade II listed. National Cycle Network Route 72, Hadrian's Cycleway, stretches 160 miles along the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site from Ravenglass on the Cumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkandrews Railway Station
Kirkandrews railway station was a railway station near Kirkandrews-on-Eden, Cumberland (now in Cumbria), England, on the Port Carlisle Railway branch and later the Silloth branch. Retrieved : 2012-08-21 The station served the village and the rural district. Kirkandrews closed on 7 September 1964;Cumbria Railways Retrieved : 2012-08-21 the station building survives as a private dwelling. The line to Silloth closed on 7 September 1964 as part of the . History In 1819 a port was constructed at |
