Langwathby

Langwathby
Langwathby
	Village green
Population	748 (2001)
OS grid reference	NY569336
Civil parish	Langwathby;
District	Eden;
Shire county	Cumbria;
Region	North West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PENRITH
Postcode district	CA10
Dialling code	01768
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Penrith and the Border;
	List of places UK England Cumbria

Langwathby is a village and civil parish in northern Cumbria, England. It is situated about 5 miles (8.0 km) north east of Penrith on the A686 road. The village lies on the banks of the River Eden.

The village is centred on a large village green next to which stands the village pub, post office and village hall. There is a primary school on the road to Little Salkeld.

At Langwathby Hall was the visitor attraction and working ostrich farm called Eden Ostrich World, which sadly closed in 2012.

The Settle to Carlisle Railway has a station in the village.

The parish includes the nearby village of Edenhall which was a separate parish until 1934.

Langwathby is also the base of 'The Pride of Cumbria', one of the helicopters run by The Great North Air Ambulance Service

Etymology

'Langwathby' can be translated as 'long' ('lang'), 'ford' ('wath', Old Norse 'vað'), 'village' (Old English 'bȳ', Old Norse 'býr'), referring to the fording of the River Eden which runs along the edge of the village. ^[1]

Industry

At Langwathby there is a chicken processing factory, egg packing station and an animal feed mill.

At Barbary Plains just outside Edenhall there was formerly a cement block works formerly owned by Hanson plc but now owned by RMC Group, part of Cemex.

References

^ Armstrong, A. M.; Mawer, A.; Stenton, F. M.; Dickens, B. (1950). The place-names of Cumberland. English Place-Name Society, vol.xxi. Vol. Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 218–219.

External links

Media related to Langwathby at Wikimedia Commons
Cumbria County History Trust: Langwathby (nb: provisional research only - see Talk page)

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[1] Armstrong, A. M.; Mawer, A.; Stenton, F. M.; Dickens, B. (1950). The place-names of Cumberland. English Place-Name Society, vol.xxi. Vol. Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 218–219.

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