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Burtholme

Civil parish in Cumbria, England

Summary

Civil parish in Cumbria, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	Burtholme Beck (geograph 3778536).jpg
static_image_caption	Burtholme Beck
coordinates
official_name	Burtholme
civil_parish	Burtholme
unitary_england	Cumberland
lieutenancy_england	Cumbria
region	North West England
constituency_westminster	Carlisle
post_town	BRAMPTON
postcode_district	CA8
postcode_area	CA
dial_code	016977
os_grid_reference	NY557641
pushpin_map	United Kingdom City of Carlisle
pushpin_map_caption	Location in the City of Carlisle district, Cumbria

Burtholme refers to any of a civil parish in Cumbria, England, a hamlet within that parish or a family name originally linked to the place. It also appears in Burtholme Beck, which marks a significant point on Hadrian's Wall.

Burtholme Civil Parish

Burtholme is a civil parish within the Cumberland district in Cumbria, in North West England. Civil parishes such as Burtholme were established in 1894. The villages of Lanercost and Banks are in the parish. Burtholme sits within the ecclesiastical parish of Lanercost, which along with the civil parishes of Askerton, Kingwater and Waterhead are on the banks of the River Irthing. The population of this civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 200.

Hadrian's Wall runs through the parish.

Burtholme

Burtholme is also a small hamlet within the parish. The land around the hamlet extends down to the River Irthing and presumably is the holme (a piece of flat low-lying ground by a river or stream) of Burtholme or Burt's holme. The name dates back to the Danelaw and was well established by the time that Lanercost Priory was founded in 1169, the founding charter of which made Burtholme Beck the western boundary of its land.

Burtholme Beck

Burtholme Beck is a small beck running through the parish of Burtholme feeding into the River Irthing. It is crossed by Hadrian's Wall and is close to the point (Turret 53B) at which the building material used for Hadrian's Wall changed from Limestone (to the east) to red sandstone (to the west).

References

(2014). "Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 86 ''Haltwhistle & Brampton (Bewcastle & Alston)''". Ordnance Survey.
(1 January 2016). "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer". Ordnance Survey.
"Civil Parish population 2011".

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