Hesket, Cumbria

Hesket
The Salutation Inn, High Hesket
Hesket Hesket shown within Cumbria
Population	2,588 (2011)^[1]
OS grid reference	NY4744
Civil parish	Hesket
District	Eden
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CARLISLE
Postcode district	CA4
Dialling code	01697
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Penrith and the Border
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Coordinates: 54°46′N 2°48′W / 54.77°N 2.80°W / 54.77; -2.80

Hesket is a large civil parish in the Eden District of Cumbria, England.^[2] It was formed in 1934 by a County Review Order which merged the parishes of Hesket-in-the-Forest and Plumpton Wall.

Villages in the parish

Within the parish are the villages and hamlets of High Hesket, Old Town, Low Hesket, Aiketgate, Armathwaite, Plumpton, Plumpton Street, Plumpton Foot, Ivegill (part), Calthwaite, Petteril Green, Southwaite, Morton and Thiefside.^[3] (The settlement of Plumpton Head is within the neighbouring civil parish of Penrith.) There are primary schools at Plumpton, Calthwaite, Armathwaite, Ivegill and High Hesket, and roughly halfway between High and Low Hesket is a doctor's surgery.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south to the boundaries of Penrith and had a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 3,193.^[4]

Transport

The Settle and Carlisle Railway runs through the parish with a station at Armathwaite. The West Coast Main Line also runs through the parish at one time there were stations on this line at Plumpton, Southwaite and Calthwaite. The M6 motorway and the A6 road run parallel to each other through the parish with a motorway service area at Southwaite.

Places of interest

At Castlesteads or Old Penrith just north of Plumpton are the remains of a Roman Fort known as Voreda.

In the Middle Ages the area was the heart of the Royal hunting ground known as Inglewood Forest.

The village and former market town of Hesket Newmarket is not within Hesket parish and is situated about 10 miles (16 km) to the west and within Caldbeck parish in Allerdale borough.

References

↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 21 June 2015.
↑ "Ordnance Survey Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 86 Haltwhistle & Brampton (Bewcastle & Alston) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319231661.
↑ "Ward population 2011. Governance section added". Retrieved 21 June 2015.

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