Lamplugh () is a scattered community and
civil parish located in West
Cumbria on the edge of the English
Lake District
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and
historically
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part of
Cumberland
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. It had a population of 763 in 2001, increasing to 805 at the 2011 Census.
The main A5086 road from
Cockermouth to
Egremont runs roughly north–south through the community. The
Whitehaven Cleator and Egremont Railway, later LMS, also ran through the parish, with a
station
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Agriculture
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in Wright Green. North of Rowrah this lost its passenger service in 1931 and was closed to all traffic in 1954.
Unusually, the village has no obvious centre. While
St. Michael's church is built on the highest point in the village, the local pub, the Lamplugh Tip Inn, is over a mile away on the A5086. (The inn is currently closed and has been undergoing renovation for a few years.) Lamplugh School (the local primary school) is at the hamlet of Kirkland. Because Lamplugh Civil Parish is very large, it includes Kirkland as well as Eskett and also, until recent boundary changes, parts of both Ennerdale Bridge and Rowrah.
The village is on the edge of the
Lake District National Park
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The area was desi ...
. The roads from St. Michael's Church towards
Loweswater and fro