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Great Strickland


Great Strickland is a village in the Eden district of Cumbria, located about 8 miles south-east of Penrith. The village includes the Strickland Arms public house and St Barnabas' Church. Great Strickland Village Hall was erected in the 1920's - the timber and corrugated iron building was a repurposed munitions store from Gretna. The village and surrounding area form Great Strickland Civil Parish.

Great Strickland is a village and civil parish in the Eden Valley between the Cumbrian mountains in the west and the Pennines in the east. It is 5 miles (8.0 km) south east of Penrith, and is in the former county of Westmorland. At the 2011 Census Great Strickland was grouped with Little Strickland inself enlarged to include Thrimby after 2001, to give a total population of 370. The equivalent figure from the 2001 census was 342.

The sandstone village church is dedicated to Saint Barnabas and was constructed in 1872. It has a bell turret.

To the west of the village lies the River Leith, the West Coast Main Line and the M6 Motorway. To the south lies the small settlement of Little Strickland.

History

The village gets its name from a Scandinavian term for pastureland around the 9th and 10th centuries.

In 1179, the local heiress Christian de Leteham married Walter de Castlecarrock and he changed his name to de Strikeland.

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Great Strickland, 1848 Great Strickland Civil Parish Church of St Barnabas, Great Strickland
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Strickland Arms, Great Stricklands

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Grass triangle in the centre of Great Strickland

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Old Direction Sign - Signpost by The Green, Great Strickland Parish

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Chapel House, Great Strickland

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Great Strickland Church

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Airygill Lane, Great Strickland

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Great Strickland, 1848
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Great Strickland, 1848
- STRICKLAND, GREAT, a township in the parish of Morland, West ward and union, county of Westmorland, 3 miles (W.N.W.) from Morland; containing 277 inhabitants. This place takes its name from …

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