Crooklands

Crooklands
Crooklands
	Preston Patrick Church and school houses, Crooklands
	Crooklands Location within Cumbria
Population	2,176 (2011.Ward)
OS grid reference	SD534835
Civil parish	Heversham;
District	South Lakeland;
Shire county	Cumbria;
Region	North West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MILNTHORPE
Postcode district	LA7
Dialling code	015395
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Westmorland and Lonsdale;
	List of places UK England Cumbria 54°14′42″N 2°42′54″W / 54.2450°N 2.7150°W

Crooklands is a village in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Kendal on the A65 road. Historically part of Westmorland, the Lancaster Canal and Peasey Beck pass through Crooklands. The adjacent showfield of the Westmorland County Agricultural Society is the venue of the annual Westmorland County Show (first held 1799, moved to this site late 20th century), Country Fest (since 2009) and various other events.

Crooklands is a ward which elects one councillor to South Lakeland district council.^[1] The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 2,146.

In the 1870s Crooklands was described as "a hamlet in Preston-Richard township, Heversham parish".^[2]

References

^ "Councillors by ward". South Lakeland District Council. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
^ Wilson, John Marius (1870–72). "Crooklands". Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Retrieved 9 September 2011.

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