Cark
| Cark | |
| Lancashire | |
|---|---|
 The Engine Inn and Restaurant, Cark | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SD363765 |
| Location: | 54°10’48"N, 2°58’34"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Grange-over-Sands |
| Postcode: | LA11 |
| Dialling code: | 015395 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Westmorland & Furness |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Westmorland and Lonsdale |
Cark (sometimes Cark in Cartmel) is a village on the Cartmel Peninsula of Lancashire. It stands beside the B5278 road to Haverthwaite (and to the A590 road) half a mile north of Flookburgh. It is two miles southwest of Cartmel and three miles west of the peninsula's sole town, Grange-over-Sands.
The village is served by Cark and Cartmel railway station on the Furness Line between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster.
The village used to have a water-powered cotton mill between 1785 and c1815.
Half a mile to the north of Cark stands Holker Hall, the seat of Lord and Lady Cavendish.
A Royal Air Force airfield was constructed near Flookburgh in late 1940 and named RAF Station Cark. It was used by training and anti-aircraft co-operation units from March 1941 until closure in December 1945. After many years of disuse, it was reopened for civilian use and is the location of the North West Parachute Centre.
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