Angerton, Cumberland

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Angerton
Cumberland

Angerton church
Location
Grid reference: NY229570
Location: 54°54’7"N, 3°12’14"W
Data
Post town: Wigton
Postcode: CA7
Dialling code: 016973
Local Government
Council: Cumberland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Workington

Angerton is a village in Cumberland, in the north of the county at the lowest bridge over the tidal River Wampool before it enters Moricambe Bay and thence the Solway Firth. The lands about the village fade into the Solway marshes. Immediately to the south is Kirkbride, the two villages being indistinguishable along the same lane.

The old coastal railway line from Carlisle to Silloth, seven and a half miles to the west, ran through Angerton, but has long since been closed and lifted.

References

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