Jericho, Cumberland

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Jericho
Cumberland

The farmhouse at Jericho
Location
Grid reference: NY113463
Location: 54°48’14"N, 3°22’48"W
Data
Post town: Maryport
Postcode: CA15
Dialling code: 01900
Local Government
Council: Cumberland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Workington

Jericho is a tiny hamet in western Cumberland, within the Parish of Holme St Cuthbert. It is to be found two miles east of the village of Mawbray. It is at a junction of minor lands and barely cosists of four cottages or so: on a great many maps, Jericho is not marked.

The settlement appears in birth, marriage, and death registrations from as early as the mid-19th century,[1] and so certainly existed by that time. Jericho consists of only a single farmhouse,[2] Otherwise there is not a great deal of historical information about the place.

Nearby is the Overby sand quarry, where Thomas Armstrong Ltd. extracts sand from a large deposit left behind after the last ice age. Work has been ongoing at the quarry, and other surrounding satellite quarries, for the past fifty years.[3]

Jericho is located at a staggered crossroads, where single-lane roads lead north-east in the direction of Tarns, east toward Aikshaw and the Overby sand quarry, south-west to Edderside and the coast, and north-west to Holme St Cuthbert by way of Goodyhills. The settlement has no public transportation links; the closest regular bus stop is on the B5300 coast road, two and a half miles to the south-west.

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