Harker, Cumbria

Harker
Harker
	Geese at Harker
	Harker Location within Cumbria
OS grid reference	NY395607
Civil parish	Rockcliffe;
District	City of Carlisle;
Shire county	Cumbria;
Region	North West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CARLISLE
Postcode district	CA6
Dialling code	01228
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Penrith and The Border;
	List of places UK England Cumbria 54°56′17″N 2°56′38″W / 54.938°N 2.944°W

Harker is a settlement in the parish of Rockcliffe, in the City of Carlisle district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Harker is located along the A7 road^[1] on the Solway Plain. Harker is situated approximately two miles north of the course of Hadrian's Wall.

From 1862, Harker was served by a railway station, sited on the Waverley route that linked Carlisle and Edinburgh. The station was closed to passengers in 1929. It reopened (unstaffed) in 1936 to serve Carlisle airfield and remained intermittently in use, serving local RAF airfield and Maintenance Unit 14MU operations, as well as the local community, until the closure of the line in 1969.

Harker is also associated with the Surname Harker.^[2]

References

^ Philip's Motorist's Atlas: 2004, Octopus Publishing Group, London, England
^ http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?view=1&surname=harker

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[1] Philip's Motorist's Atlas: 2004, Octopus Publishing Group, London, England

[2] ttp://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?view=1&surname=harker

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