Blencarn

Blencarn
The village green, Blencarn
Blencarn Location in Eden, Cumbria Show map of the former Eden District Blencarn Location within Cumbria Show map of Cumbria
OS grid reference	NY637312
Civil parish	Culgaith
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 54°40′30″N 2°33′43″W / 54.675°N 2.562°W / 54.675; -2.562

Blencarn is a small village located in the Eden District of Cumbria, England. The village is situated at the foot of the Pennines.

In Blencarn there is fly fishing at the 15-acre (61,000 m²) Blencarn lake.

Geography

Blencarn is located in the Eden valley near the Pennines. Blencarn is situated 2.86 km west of Kirkland fell and Cross Fell. A number of streams run nearby: Blencarn Beck, Crowdundle Beck, Skirwith Beck, Kirkland Beck, Sunndgill Beck and Aigill Sike as well as Blencarn lake. The village of Kirkland is located 1.31 km northeast. The village of Milburn is located 2.26 km south and the village of Skirwith 2.05 km north.

History

There has been activity near Blencarn as early as the Roman era. An old Roman road known as Maiden Way once ran nearby and 1.27 km northeast near the farm of Ranbeck lies various ancient "cultivation terraces" known as "The Hanging Walls of Mark Antony".

Blencarn is marked as "Blenkerne" on Christopher Saxton’s 1579 map of Westmorland and Cumberland, as "Blenkern" on a 1760 map of the area and as its current name on Carry's 1794 map of England, Scotland and Wales.