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Holmrook
Holmrook is a linear village in the English county of Cumbria. It lies along the A595 road on the west banks of the River Irt. The B5344 road connects it to Drigg, with its railway station less than two miles to the west. Two miles north-east along the Irt valley is Irton Hall, a large mostly 19th-century house which incorporates a 14th-century pele tower. Holmrook Hall Holmrook Hall was a Victorian country house, at one time owned by the Reverend Charles Skeffington Lutwidge. His relative Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - better known as the author, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll - used to come and stay occasionally. During World War II, Holmrook Hall was requisitioned by the Admiralty on behalf of the Royal Navy, with locals told that it was a rest home for shipwrecked and distressed sailors. In fact, strategically located between ROF Drigg and ROF Sellafield, it was the Royal Navy bomb and munitions training school between 1943 and 1946, under the title HMS V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irton With Santon
Irton with Santon is a civil parish in Copeland (borough), Copeland, Cumbria, England, which includes the village of Santon Bridge. It has a Parish councils in England, parish council. It had a population of 373 in 2001, decreasing to 316 at the 2011 Census. The parish is bordered by the parishes of Gosforth, Cumbria, Gosforth to the north west and west, Eskdale, Cumbria, Eskdale to the east, Muncaster to the south east, and Drigg and Carleton to the south west. Irton Pike is a hill of included in Alfred WainwWainwright's book ''The Outlying Fells of Lakeland'', and the River Irt flows through the parish, bridged at Santon Bridge. The parish lies within the Lake District National Park, and the only major road is a short stretch of the A595 road, A595 along the western edge, passing through Holmrook (a village divided between this parish and Drigg and Carleton). There are 17 listed building, listed buildings or structures in the parish. The Church of St Paul and the medieval towe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
