Little Asby is a small village in

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, England.

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part of

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, its name is said to be derived from the Norse words ''askr'', meaning "ash", and ''by'', meaning "farm".Little Asby
at the Cumbria Directory A chapel at the site (St Leonard's Chapel), of which little remains, is the main reason that the village was built. Just outside the village, to the west, is Little Asby Common, which is a

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and a

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because of the plant species that inhabit the

limestone pavement A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial pavement. The term is mainly used in the UK and Ireland, where many of these landforms have developed dist ...

areas, as well as the

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

geology of the area. In

chronostratigraphy Chronostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy that studies the ages of rock strata in relation to time. The ultimate aim of chronostratigraphy is to arrange the sequence of deposition and the time of deposition of all rocks within a geologica ...

, the British sub-stage of the

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...

period, the 'Asbian' derives its name from Little Asby Scar.Harland, W.B. 1990 ''A Geologic Time Scale 1989'', Cambridge University Press p43

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* Littl
Asby Village website
{{authority control Villages in Cumbria Eden District

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