Little Strickland is a small village and
civil parish
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in the
Eden district of
Cumbria
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, England. It is about from
Penrith and 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 ...
. The village has one place of worship and a telephone box. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the parish of
Great Strickland
Great Strickland is a village and civil parish in the Eden Valley between the Cumbrian mountains in the west and the Pennines in the east. It is south east of Penrith, and is in the former county of Westmorland. At the 2011 Census Great St ...
. On 1 April 2019
Thrimby parish was merged with Little Strickland.
Transport
The village lies from the
A6 road This is a list of roads designated A6.
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and the
M6 motorway
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is also about away, but there is no motorway access point for about .
Nearby settlements
Nearby settlements include Penrith, Appleby-in-Westmorland, the villages of Great Strickland,
Newby,
Hackthorpe
Hackthorpe is a hamlet in the Eden district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Circa 1870, it had a population of 110 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.
Location
It is located on the A6 road just south of Lowther ...
,
Sleagill and
Shap
Shap is a linear village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Eden district, Cumbria, England, in the historic county of Westmorland. The parish had a population of 1,221 in 2001, increasing slightly to 1,264 at the 2011 ...
and the hamlets of Thrimby and
Sweetholme.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Little Strickland
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Little Strickland(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
* http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Town_or_Village/location.php?url=little_strickland
Villages in Cumbria
Civil parishes in Cumbria
Eden District
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