Fingland

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Fingland
Cumberland

Midtown Farm, Fingland
Location
Grid reference: NY254569
Location: 54°54’7"N, 3°9’43"W
Data
Post town: Wigton
Postcode: CA7
Dialling code: 016973
Local Government
Council: Cumberland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Workington

Fingland is a hamlet in north-western Cumberland. Fingland is two miles inland form the head of the Solway Firth and Drumburgh, on the B5307 road in between the villages of Kirkbride and Kirkbampton. There is a farm called Fingland Rigg nearby, which gives its name to Fingland Rigg National Nature Reserve.

The village was called Thingland in the Middle Ages (recorded as such in 1279), which name indicates land of an assembly or court (the Old Norse þing).

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