Great Ormside is a small village in the parish of
Ormside
Ormside is a civil parish in the Eden District of Cumbria, England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the C ...
, in the
Eden District, in the English county of
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...
. It is a few miles away from the small town of
Appleby-in-Westmorland
Appleby-in-Westmorland is a market town and civil parish in the Eden District of Cumbria, England, with a population of 3,048 at the 2011 Census. Crossed by the River Eden, Appleby was the county town of the historic county of Westmorland. I ...
. It is near the
River Eden. There is also the smaller neighbouring hamlet of
Little Ormside. It also has a church called
St. James's Church.
![Ormside Hall - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Ormside_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_383197.jpg)
Close to the church in Great Ormside, Ormside Hall is a 17th-century house which incorporates the remains of a late 14th- or early 15th-century tower house.
Ormside Hall at Pastscape
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See also
* Listed buildings in Ormside
* Ormside bowl
References
External links
{{Commons category, Great Ormside
Great Ormside at Visit Cumbria website
Villages in Cumbria
Eden District