Great Strickland is a village and

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in the Eden Valley between the Cumbrian mountains in the west and the

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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 an area of North West England which was Historic counties of England, historically a county. People of the area ...

.Great Stickland
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Little Strickland Little Strickland is a small village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness 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 teleph ...

, itself enlarged to include Thrimby after 2001, to give a total population of 370. The equivalent figure from the 2001 census was 342. The sandstone village church is dedicated to

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and was constructed in 1872. It has a bell turret. To the west of the village lies the River Leith, the

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and the M6 Motorway. To the south lies the small settlement of

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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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References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Great Strickland
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