Midgeholme is a hamlet and

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in the

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district,

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, England. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 67. The parish is bordered to the north by Farlam; to the east by Hartleyburn and Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh, both in

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; to the south by Geltsdale; and to the west by Hayton. Cold Fell, at , is on the boundary of Midgeholme and Geltsdale parishes. The hamlet of Midgeholme and the disused

Midgeholme Coalfield The Midgeholme Coalfield is a coalfield in Midgeholme, on the border of Cumbria with Northumberland in northern England. It is the largest of a series of small coalfields along the south side of the Tyne Valley and which are intermediate between ...

are in the north east of the parish, near the

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between

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and Lambley.

Listed buildings

the only

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in the parish is Tarn House, built in the late 15th century and extended and altered in 1843, at Grade II*. It overlooks Tindale Tarn, the north shore of which forms the boundary with Farlam parish.

References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Midgeholme
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) * * Hamlets in Cumbria Civil parishes in Cumbria Cumberland (unitary authority) {{Cumbria-geo-stub