Harker

Harker
Cumberland
Geese at Harker
Location
Grid reference:	NY395607
Location:	54°56’17"N, 2°56’38"W
Data
Post town:	Carlisle
Postcode:	CA6
Dialling code:	01228
Local Government
Council:	Cumberland
Parliamentary constituency:	Penrith and The Border

Harker is a hamlet in the parish of Rockcliffe, west of the City of Carlisle, in Cumberland.

Harker runs along the A7 road on the Solway Plain and is about two miles north of the course of Hadrian's Wall.

From 1862, Harker was served by a railway station, sited on the Waverley route that linked Carlisle and Edinburgh. The station was closed to passengers in 1929. It reopened (unstaffed) in 1936 to serve Carlisle airfield and remained intermittently in use, serving local RAF airfield and Maintenance Unit 14MU operations, as well as the local community, until the closure of the line in 1969.

References

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