Corney is a small
settlement
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*Human settlement, a community where people live
*Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building
*Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction
*Settlement (fina ...
in
Cumbria, England, and located in the west of the
Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains (or ''fells''), and its associations with William Wordswor ...
. It is near the
A595 road, in the
civil parish of
Waberthwaite
Waberthwaite is a small, former rural civil parish (about 4 square miles in area) on the south bank of the estuary of the River Esk, in Copeland, Cumbria, England. Since 1934 it has been part of the combined parish of Waberthwaite and Corney, ...
and it is located north east of
Bootle and is 10 miles north of
Millom.
The name is well known to travellers who take the fell road from
Duddon Bridge to
Ravenglass, as this route is known as the "Corney Fell Road". It is possible to see the
Isle of Man, North Wales and parts of Scotland from Corney on a clear day.
Corney is home to a predominantly agricultural community. Corney is also close to the ruins of a 12th-century
Benedictine nunnery (no public access). St John's Church dates back to as early as the 12th century.
Corney, coincidentally, is almost exactly located at the South West Corner of The
British Geological Survey
The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.
The BGS h ...
, 1:50,000 Geological Sheet 38 (England and Wales). Corney is underlain by
Grandiorite of the Eskdale intrusion, intruded during the
Ordovician period.
[B.G.S. Geology of the Ambleside District. ]
See also
*
Listed buildings in Waberthwaite
Waberthwaite is a civil parish in the Borough of Copeland, Cumbria, England. It contains six listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades ...
https://search.justice.gov/search?query=corney&op=Search&affiliate=justice
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Corney(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Local information websiteCorney at Streetmap.co.uk
Villages in Cumbria
Borough of Copeland
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