Crackenthorpe

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Crackenthorpe
Westmorland
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Crackenthorpe
Location
Grid reference: NY661221
Location: 54°35’35"N, 2°31’29"W
Data
Population: 77  (2001)
Post town: Appleby In Westmorland
Postcode: CA16
Dialling code: 01768
Local Government
Council: Westmorland & Furness
Parliamentary
constituency:
Penrith and The Border

Crackenthorpe is a Westmorland. It is about twelve miles south-east of Penrith. The village was on the A66 road until it was by-passed. The population of the parish was less than 100 at the 2011 Census.

Crackenthorpe Hall is a large grade II listed house which was rebuilt in the early 17th century and restructured in circa 1685 by Hugh & Thomas Machell. It has since been subdivided into several dwellings.[1] It was reputedly haunted by the ghost of Peg Sneddle, the grey lady of Crackenthorpe. Her body was exhumed and buried in the bed of the River Eden under a boulder of Shap granite known as Peg's stone.[2]

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