Kirksanton is a village on the
A5093 road
List of A roads in zone 5 in Great Britain starting north/east of the A5, west of the A6, south of the Solway Firth
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, in the
Copeland district, in the county of
Cumbria, England. Nearby settlements include the town of
Millom
Millom is a town and civil parish on the north shore of the estuary of the River Duddon in southwest Cumbria, historically part of Cumberland, England. It is situated just outside the Lake District National Park, about north of Barrow-in-F ...
, and the villages of
Silecroft and
Whicham.
In April 2009,
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband ...
included Kirksanton in a list of eleven potential new nuclear power plants. The site was ruled out by the
new Government's Energy Secretary
Chris Huhne
Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (born 2 July 1954), known as Chris Huhne, is a British energy and climate change consultant and former journalist and politician who was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Eastleigh from 2005 to 2013 a ...
in October 2010 when the list of potential sites was reduced to eight,
Braystones the only other potential new nuclear site at the time, was subsequently rejected also.
The village is located just outside the
Lake District
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National Park
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.
Governance
Kirksanton is within the
Copeland UK Parliamentary constituency,
Trudy Harrison
Trudy Lynne Harrison (born 19 April 1976) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Copeland since the February 2017 by-election. It was the first time Copeland had elected a Conservative MP sin ...
is the
Member of parliament
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.
Before
Brexit
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, it was in the
North West England
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European Parliamentary Constituency.
For
Local Government
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purposes it is in the ''Black Combe & Scafell'' ward of the
Borough of Copeland
The Borough of Copeland is a local government district with borough status in western Cumbria, England. Its council is based in Whitehaven. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Whitehaven, Ennerdale Rural Distri ...
and ''Millom Without'' of
Cumbria County Council
Cumbria County Council is the county council for the non-metropolitan county of Cumbria in the North West of England. Established in April 1974, following its first elections held the previous year, it is an elected local government body respon ...
.
Kirksanton does not have its own
parish council; instead it's part of Whicham Parish Council.
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Millom, Rural(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Villages in Cumbria
Whicham
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