Blencarn is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6750°, -2.5620°.

Reservoirs & lochs · North East England

Blencarn

Blencarn in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h

Blencarn is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Blencarn is a village in the civil parish of Culgaith, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. The village is situated at the foot of the Pennines. It has a small village hall that used to be a school. In Blencarn there is fly fishing at the 15-acre (61,000 m2) Blencarn lake.

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History

There has been activity near Blencarn as early as the Roman era. An old Roman road known as Maiden Way once ran nearby and 1.27 km northeast near the farm of Ranbeck lies various ancient "cultivation terraces" known as "The Hanging Walls of Mark Antony". Blencarn is marked as "Blenkerne" on Christopher Saxton’s 1579 map of Westmorland and Cumberland, as "Blenkern" on a 1760 map of the area and as its current name on Carry's 1794 map of England, Scotland and Wales.

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