Rusland
| Rusland | |
| Lancashire | |
|---|---|
 St. Paul's Church, Rusland | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SD338891 |
| Location: | 54°17’24"N, 3°-0’36"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Ulverston |
| Postcode: | LA12 |
| Dialling code: | 01229 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Westmorland & Furness |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Westmorland and Lonsdale |
Rusland is a village in Lancashire, just to the southwest of Crosslands. It is a scattered village, in the woods, with Rusland Cross the largest hamlet to the south-east and the old Rusland with the parish church to the north-west.
The village spreads across both sides of the Rusland Pool, which flows down from the wooded fells to the Leven Estuary. The river is created at Rusland from the union of the Grizedale Beck and the Ashes Beck.
Parish church
The parish church is St Paul's, part of the wider Hawkshead Benefice in the Diocese of Carlisle. It stands on a rocky outcrop in the midst of the scattered community.
The writer Arthur Ransome is buried in the churchyard of the parish church.[1] He asked the Vicar to be buried here when his time came, as the churchyard, green and isolated, was, he reckoned, one of the most peaceful places on earth.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Rusland) |
- St Paul, Rusland - Hawkshead Benefice
References
- ↑ Arthur "Swallows and Amazons" Ransome – Lake District National Park