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Coordinates: 54°34′41″N 2°41′24″W / 54.578°N 2.69°W / 54.578; -2.69
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Thrimby
Out Scar
Thrimby is located in Cumbria
Thrimby
Thrimby
Location within Cumbria
Population30 (2001)
OS grid referenceNY5520
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPENRITH
Postcode districtCA10
Dialling code01931
PoliceCumbria
FireCumbria
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cumbria
54°34′41″N 2°41′24″W / 54.578°N 2.69°W / 54.578; -2.69

Thrimby is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Little Strickland, in the Eden district of Cumbria, England. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Thrimby was 30.[1] The population measured at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the parish of Great Strickland. It has a Grade 2* farmhouse called Thrimby Hall,[2][3] as seen in series 4 of the BBC Two fly-on-the-wall farming documentary "This Farming Life".[4]

History

On 23 October 1970, the nine-mile Tebay to Thrimby section of the M6 was opened,[5] built by Christiani-Shand. The section terminated on the A6. The next junction further north would be at Penrith (A66). Thrimby was a chapelry and township within Morland parish, it became a civil parish in 1866,[6] on the 1st of April 2019 the parish was merged with Little Strickland.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Eden Retrieved 10 March 2011
  2. ^ http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-74375-thrimby-hall-thrimby
  3. ^ http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/lgaz/lk11750.htm
  4. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094mqlx
  5. ^ Opening
  6. ^ "Relationships and changes Thrimby CP/Tn/Ch through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  7. ^ "The Eden District Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) (Little Strickland and Thrimby) Order 2019" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 13 May 2019.

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