Lower Holker is a
civil parish in the
South Lakeland
South Lakeland is a local government district in Cumbria, England. The population of the non-metropolitan district was 102,301 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 103,658 at the 2011 Census. Its council is based in Kendal. It includes ...
district of the
English county of
Cumbria. It includes the villages of
Cark and
Flookburgh, the hamlets of Holker,
Ravenstown
''Ravenstown is also a nickname for Baltimore, Maryland.''
Ravenstown is a settlement in the Lower Holker parish of the Cartmel Peninsula in Cumbria, England. The village is mostly a housing estate which was built during First World war to serv ...
and Sand Gate, and historic
Holker Hall. In the
2001 census the parish had a population of 1,808, increasing at the
2011 census to 1,869.
In
chronostratigraphy, the British
sub-stage of the
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...
period, the 'Holkerian' derives its name from
Holker Hall.
[Harland, W.B. 1990 ''A Geologic Time Scale 1989'', Cambridge University Press p43]
See also
*
Listed buildings in Lower Holker
Lower Holker is a civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It contains 62 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, five are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the thr ...
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Holker, Lower(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Civil parishes in Cumbria
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