Visit Great Strickland Places

Welcome to Visit Great Strickland Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Great Strickland

  

Great Strickland Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Great Strickland

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Great Strickland history

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The village gets its name from a Scandinavian term for pastureland around the 9th and 10th centuries. In 1179, local heiress Christian de Leteham married Walter de Castlecarrock and he changed his name to de Strikeland.

You can visit Great Strickland places with Walkfo Great Strickland to hear history at Great Strickland’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Great Strickland has 13 places to visit in our interactive Great Strickland map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Great Strickland, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Great Strickland places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Great Strickland & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 13 audio facts unique to Great Strickland places in an interactive Great Strickland map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Great Strickland Places Map
13 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Great Strickland historic spots	Great Strickland tourist destinations	Great Strickland plaques	Great Strickland geographic features
Walkfo Great Strickland tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Great Strickland

  

Best Great Strickland places to visit

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Great Strickland has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Great Strickland’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Great Strickland’s information audio spots:

Clifton Moor Skirmish The Clifton Moor Skirmish took place during the Jacobite rising of 1745. The Jacobite army split into three smaller columns after deciding to retreat from Derby. A small force of dragoons led by Cumberland and Sir Philip Honywood made contact with the rearguard. Lord George Murray ordered his baggage train to continue its retreat towards Penrith while he delayed Cumberland’s force.

Newby, Cumbria Newby is a village and civil parish in the Eden district of Cumbria, England. It is about 7 miles (11 km) from Penrith and about 5 miles (8 km) away from Appleby-in-Westmorland. The population at the 2011 Census was less than 100 and data was included with Sleagill.

St Laurence’s Church, Morland St Laurence’s Church is in the village of Morland, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Appleby, the archdeaconry of Carlisle, and the diocese Carlisle. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

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