Catterlen is a small village and
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 authorit ...
north west of
Penrith, Cumbria
Penrith (, , ) is a market town and civil parish in the county of Cumbria, England, about south of Carlisle. It is less than outside the Lake District National Park, in between the Rivers Petteril and Eamont and just north of the River ...
. At the 2001 census the civil parish had a population of 471,
increasing to 605 at the 2011 Census.
The village is a linear one with the
B5305 road
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dividing it into two. Junction 41 of the
M6 motorway
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is at Catterlen.
The parish of Catterlen also includes the slightly more populous village of
Newton Reigny
Newton Reigny is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Catterlen, in the Eden District, in the English county of Cumbria, near the town of Penrith. In 1931 the parish had a population of 168.
History
"'New tūn'...This was he ...
which was a separate parish from 1866 to 1934, previous to 1866 both villages were part of a larger Newton Reigny Parish.
The large house and former
pele tower
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known as Catterlen Hall is closer to Newton Reigny than Catterlen.
Within the parish is the
Newton Rigg College part of the Yorkshire-based
Askham Bryan College.
Etymology
The name ''Catterlen'' is
Brittonic
Brittonic or Brythonic may refer to:
*Common Brittonic, or Brythonic, the Celtic language anciently spoken in Great Britain
*Brittonic languages, a branch of the Celtic languages descended from Common Brittonic
*Britons (Celtic people)
The Br ...
in origin.
The first part of the name is the element ''cadeir'', meaning "throne, chair" (see
Chatterton and
Chadderton
Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk and Rochdale Canal. It is located in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Oldham, south of Rochdale and north-east of Manchester.
...
in Lancashire, and
Catterton in North Yorkshire).
The second element in the name is ''lẹ:n'', whose Welsh equivalent ''llwyn'' means "thicket (of small trees and bushes)".
See also
*
Listed buildings in Catterlen
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Catterlen(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Villages in Cumbria
Civil parishes in Cumbria
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