Great Strickland is a 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 ...
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
Westmorland (, formerly also spelt ''Westmoreland'';R. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British IslesVision of Britain/ref> is a historic county in North West England spanning the southern Lake District and the northern Dales. It had an ...
.
[Great Stickland](_blank)
/ref> At the 2011 Census Great Strickland was grouped with Little Strickland, itself enlarged to include Thrimby after 2001, to give a total population of 370.Saint Barnabas
Barnabas (; arc, ܒܪܢܒܐ; grc, Βαρνάβας), born Joseph () or Joses (), was according to tradition an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Nam ...
and was constructed in 1872. It has a bell turret.River Leith
The River Leith is a watercourse in Cumbria, a county of northwestern England.
Rising at Shap, the Leith flows north alongside the M6 motorway via Great and Little Strickland before turning eastward at Melkinthorpe. Having passed through Cli ...
, the West Coast Main Line
The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London and Glasgow with branches to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh. It is one of the busiest ...
and the M6 Motorway. To the south lies the small settlement of Little Strickland.
Image:Strickland of Westmorland arms.svg, Strickland Coat of Arms
Image:St Barnabas' Church, Great Strickland - geograph.org.uk - 66949.jpg, St Barnabas' Church, Great Strickland
History
The village gets its name from a Scandinavian term for pastureland around the
9th and 10th centuries.
In 1179, the local heiress Christian de Leteham married Walter de Castlecarrock and he changed his name to de Strikeland.Strickland family
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See also
* Listed buildings in Great Strickland
* Strickland (surname)
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Great Strickland
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
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Civil parishes in Cumbria
Villages in Cumbria
Westmorland