Plasketlands is a small settlement in the

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of Holme St. Cuthbert in

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, United Kingdom. It is located approximately a quarter-of-a-mile south-west of

Goodyhills Goodyhills is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert, in northern Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located 1.5 miles east of the village of Mawbray, and 23 miles west of the city of Carlisle, Cumbria, Carlisle. A quarter of a mile to ...

, a quarter-of-a-mile to the south of the hamlet of Holme St. Cuthbert, and one-and-a-half miles east of

Mawbray Mawbray is a village in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert in Cumbria, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Cumberland. It is located on the Solway Plain, south west of Silloth, north of Maryport, and west of Carlisl ...

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, Cumbria's

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, is twenty-four miles away to the north-east. The settlement is divided into two distinct parts: High Plasketlands and Plasketlands. Jordan beck, a tributary of the Black Dub beck, flows through Plasketlands on its way to Allonby Bay.

History and etymology

The name Plasketlands comes from the

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''plashet'', meaning "a fence of living wood". It was historically spelled several different ways, including Plassegaytt, Plaskitlands, Plascade-lands, and Plesketh Landes. Evidence of settlement at Plasketlands goes back thousands of years. A palisade of posts at Plasketlands has been

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to somewhere between 4000 BC and 2500 BC.

References

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