Lamplugh
| Lamplugh | |
| Cumberland | |
|---|---|
 St. Michael's Church, Lamplugh | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY113207 |
| Location: | 54°34’27"N, 3°22’22"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 805 (2011) |
| Post town: | Workington |
| Postcode: | CA14 |
| Dialling code: | 01946 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Copeland |
Lamplugh is a scattered community in western Cumberland on the edge of the Lake District.
The main A5086 road from Cockermouth to Egremont runs roughly north-south through the community. The Whitehaven Cleator and Egremont Railway, later LMS, also ran through the parish, with a station in Wright Green. North of Rowrah this lost its passenger service in 1931 and was closed to all traffic in 1954.
The village has no obvious centre. While St Michael's church is built on the highest point in the village, the local pub, the Lamplugh Tip Inn, is over a mile away on the A5086. Lamplugh School, the local primary school, is at the hamlet of Kirkland.
Visitors
The village is outside the Lake District National Park, but with easy access to the western fells and Loweswater.
Lamplugh is the starting point for a number of walks, and is also on the Sea to Sea / C2C / Coast to Coast Cycle Route, which runs along the roads forming the national park boundary.
In popular culture
Lamplugh features in two of Melvyn Bragg's novels, by the pseudonym renamed "Crossbridge"; in "The Hired Man" and "Without a City Wall"
On 2 June 2010, Lamplugh was the unwilling focus of media attention, as the scene of the first murder during a killing spree by Derrick Bird, when he shot his twin brother, David, a resident of Lamplugh.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Lamplugh) |