''Ravenstown is also a nickname for

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.'' Ravenstown is a settlement in the

Lower Holker Lower Holker is a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria. It includes the villages of Cark and Flookburgh, the hamlets of Holker, Ravenstown and Sand Gate, and historic Holker Hall. In the 2001 census the ...

parish of the

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, England. The village is mostly a housing estate which was built during First World war to serve a new airship station built in the area. Ravenstown lies south of the larger village of

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and was historically part of

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History

Ravenstown was built to serve an airship station for

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after it was decided that Walney Airfield was deemed too vulnerable to attack from German

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attack so a new Airship station was constructed on a site which is now Cark Airfield. A new village was needed to house the workers at the new airship station which was originally named Flookburgh Model Aero Village which is now Ravenstown in which construction of 250 houses started on 27 March 1917. The roads are named after

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battles such as Somme and

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Transport

The main road running in and out of Ravenstown is Winder Lane which runs from

and the village has an unmarked bus stop which is served by routes 530, 531 and 532. The

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runs close to Ravenstown and there is a station located in nearby

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called

Cark and Cartmel railway station Cark & Cartmel is a railway station on the Furness line, which runs between and . The station, situated north-east of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the villages of Allithwaite, Cark, Cartmel and Flookburgh in Cumbria. It is owned by Network Rail ...

. Cark Airfield is located near to Ravenstown which is a small airfield for general aviation, the nearest airport with scheduled flights is

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Governance

Ravenstown is part of the

Civil Parish. Ravenstown was originally part of Ulverston Rural District until 1960 when it was replaced with North Lonsdale Rural District. In 1974 Ravenstown became part of the newly formed district of

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, inside South Lakeland Ravenstown is part of the Holker ward and is represented by the

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Gill Gardner. Originally Ravenstown was part of

before it was transferred to the new county of

in 1974. Inside Cumbria Ravenstown is part of the Cartmel ward and is represented by the Liberal Democrat Rod Wilson. Ravenstown is part of the Westmorland and Lonsdale Constituency whose member of parliament is

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of the Liberal Democrats. Prior to

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in 2020 it was part of the

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constituency in the

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Media

The local newspapers covering Ravenstown are the ''

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'', ''

The Westmorland Gazette ''The Westmorland Gazette'' is a weekly newspaper published in Kendal, England, covering " South Lakeland and surrounding areas", including Barrow and North Lancashire. Its name refers to the historic county of Westmorland. The paper is now owned ...

'' and the free ''Grange Now''. The

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station covering Ravenstown is

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and the

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station is

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. Ravenstown is covered by

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and

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Regions.

References

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