Shap Rural

Shap Rural
Shap Abbey
Shap Rural  Shap Rural shown within Cumbria
Population	130 (2011)
OS grid reference	NY5415
Civil parish	Shap Rural
District	Eden
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PENRITH
Postcode district	CA10
Dialling code	01931
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Penrith and the Border
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Coordinates: 54°30′07″N 2°43′16″W / 54.502°N 2.721°W

Shap Rural is a very large, but sparsely populated, civil parish in the Eden District of Cumbria in England, covering part of the Lake District National Park. It had a population of 119 in 2001,^[1] increasing to 130 at the 2011 Census.^[2]

Within the parish are the hamlets and settlements of Wet Sleddale, Hardendale and Swindale, most of the Shap Fells range and the reservoirs of Haweswater (part) and Wet Sleddale. The village of Mardale Green, which disappeared when Haweswater was converted into a reservoir in the 1930s, was in the parish.

The parish was created in 1906 with the splitting of the former civil parish of Shap into urban and rural parts. Shap Urban, or now simply Shap, was administered by an urban district council from 1906 to 1935. Shap and Shap Rural today have a joint parish council.

Major landowners in the parish are the Lowther Family Estates and United Utilities.

Junction 39 of the M6 motorway lies within the parish.

Shapbeck Limestone quarry owned by Hanson plc is in the northern part of the parish though the Hardendale Corus limestone quarry and works and the famous Cemex (formerly RMC) Shap Granite quarries and works are within both Shap Rural and Shap parishes.

The cottage owned by Uncle Monty in the cult 1986 film Withnail & I is located by the reservoir at Wet Sleddale.^[3]

See also

• Listed buildings in Shap Rural

References

1. Shap Rural, 2001 census, Parish headcounts
2. "Civil Ward population 2011". Retrieved 22 June 2015.
3. Tyzack, Anna (21 January 2009). "Withnail's 'Horrible little shack' under the hammer". London: Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2011.

Sources

• "Shap Rural CP (Parish)", neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk, Office for National Statistics, 2001 census