Thrimby is a hamlet and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

, now in the parish of

Little Strickland Little Strickland is a small village and civil parish in the Eden district of Cumbria, England. It is about from Penrith and from the small town of Appleby-in-Westmorland. The village has one place of worship and a telephone box. The popula ...

, in the Eden district of

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, England. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Thrimby was 30. The population measured 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 ...

. It has a Grade 2* farmhouse called Thrimby Hall, as seen in series 4 of the

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farming documentary "This Farming Life".

History

Thrimby was a

chapelry A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century. Status It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel of ease (chapel) which was the communi ...

with 2

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within Morland parish. It became a civil parish in 1866. On 1 April 2019 the parish was merged with Little Strickland. On 23 October 1970, the nine-mile

Tebay Tebay is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, within the historic borders of Westmorland. It lies in the upper Lune Valley, at the head of the Lune Gorge. The parish had a population of 728 in the 2001 census, increasing to 776 at th ...

to Thrimby section of the M6 was opened, built by

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- Shand. The section terminated on the A6. The next junction further north would be at Penrith ( A66).

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* (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) * * * * * * Hamlets in Cumbria Former civil parishes in Cumbria Little Strickland {{Cumbria-geo-stub

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