Penruddock is a small village in
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...
, England, 5.5 miles to the west of
Penrith. It forms part of the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of
Hutton.
History
The name Penruddock is
Cumbric
Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North", in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. It was closely related to Old Welsh and the ot ...
. With both red soil and red sandstone in the area to the south, the word Penruddock is likely derived from the word ''Pen'' (hill) and a
cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
Because language change can have radical effects on both the s ...
of the Welsh word ''rhudd'' (red). Red Hill is also one proposed etymology for the much debated name of
Penrith,
an area called
Redhills now lies between the two.
The village of Penruddock itself is situated over limestone which is visible in many places, with craggy outcrops and a limestone pavement on the eastern boundary, and the remains of an ancient lime burning kiln on the north western boundary. The soil over the limestone is a fairly heavy clay which retains water, with the result that it helps keep vegetation alive during times of drought, but creates very wet conditions for long periods during the winter months.
Governance
Penruddock is in the
parliamentary constituency
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
of
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency in the south of Cumbria, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Tim Farron, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats (2015–2017).
Westmorland and Lonsdale is the Lib ...
.
Transport
Penruddock can be reached by car approximately west of
Penrith, just to the north of the
A66 road
The A66 is a major road in Northern England, which in part follows the course of the Roman road from Scotch Corner to Penrith. It runs from east of Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire to Workington in Cumbria. The road has been progressively ...
.
Its
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
on the former
Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway
The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway (CK&PR) was an English railway company incorporated by act of Parliament (UK), act of Parliament on 1 August 1861, to build a line connecting the town of Cockermouth with the London and North Western ...
closed in the 1970s and was demolished on 4 March 1997. The closest station is at
Penrith.
There is also a bus service that runs between Penrith and
Keswick that can be caught outside the Herdwick Inn every hour.
See also
*
Listed buildings in Hutton, Cumbria
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Hutton Soil(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Article on The Cumbria DirectoryThe Herdwick InnPenruddock Primary School
Villages in Cumbria
Lime kilns in the United Kingdom
Hutton, Cumbria
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