Stainmore is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5279°, -2.2598°.

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Stainmore

Stainmore in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Stainmore 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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Stainmore is a remote geographic area in the Pennines on the border of Cumbria, County Durham and North Yorkshire. The name is used for a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness of Cumbria, England, including the villages of North Stainmore and South Stainmore. The parish had a population of 253 in the 2001 census, increasing to 264 at the Census 2011. Stainmore Forest stretches further east into County Durham, towards Bowes.

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History

The place-name 'Stainmore' is first attested in a document of circa 990, where it appears as Stanmoir. It appears as Stanmore in the Charter Rolls for the reign of Henry II, and as Staynmor in the Placita de Quo Warranto of 1292. The name means 'stony moor'. According to Roger of Wendover, it was where Eric Bloodaxe (d. 954), recently expelled from York, was betrayed and killed, an event which some historians believe to have taken place in a great battle. There is a Roman marching camp at Rey Cross which is a Scheduled Monument and, immediately east of the camp is the Rey Cross itself (), also called Rere Cross which is both a Scheduled Monument and a Listed Building. The Ecclesiastical…

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