Great Ormside

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Great Ormside
Westmorland

[St James' Church, Great Ormside
Location
Grid reference: NY700173
Location: 54°33’-0"N, 2°27’47"W
Data
Post town: Appleby In Westmorland
Postcode: CA16
Dialling code: 017683
Local Government
Council: Westmorland & Furness
Parliamentary
constituency:
Penrith and The Border

Great Ormside is a small village in the parish of Ormside in Westmorland. It is a few miles away from the county's small county town, Appleby-in-Westmorland, close by the River Eden. There is a neighbouring hamlet named Little Ormside.

The parish church, St James's Church, stands in the heart of the village.

Ormside Hall

Close to the church in Great Ormside, Ormside Hall is a 17th-century house which incorporates the remains of a late 14th- or early 15th-century tower house.[1]

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Great Ormside)

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