Little Asby

Little Asby
Little Asby
	Cottage, Little Asby
	Little Asby Location in Eden, Cumbria Little Asby Location within Cumbria
OS grid reference	NY697097
Civil parish	Asby;
District	Eden;
Shire county	Cumbria;
Region	North West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND
Postcode district	CA16
Dialling code	015396
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Penrith and The Border;
	List of places UK England Cumbria 54°28′52″N 2°28′01″W / 54.481°N 2.467°W

Little Asby is a small village in Cumbria, England. Historically part of Westmorland, its name is said to be derived from the Norse words askr, meaning "ash", and by, meaning "farm".^[1] A chapel at the site (St Leonard's Chapel), of which little remains, is the main reason that the village was built.^[1]

Just outside the village, to the west, is Little Asby Common, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation because of the plant species that inhabit the limestone pavement areas, as well as the limestone geology of the area.^[2] In chronostratigraphy, the British sub-stage of the Carboniferous period, the 'Asbian' derives its name from Little Asby Scar.^[3]

Sources

^ ^a ^b Little Asby Archived 2009-08-05 at the Wayback Machine at the Cumbria Directory
^ Little Asby Common on the Friends of the Lake District website
^ Harland, W.B. 1990 A Geologic Time Scale 1989, Cambridge University Press p43

External links

Media related to Little Asby at Wikimedia Commons

Little Asby Village website

[revisited-1] Little Asby Archived 2009-08-05 at the Wayback Machine at the Cumbria Directory

[2] Little Asby Common on the Friends of the Lake District website

[3] Harland, W.B. 1990 A Geologic Time Scale 1989, Cambridge University Press p43

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