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Penrith is a market town in the county of Cumbria (historically Cumberland), England. It is sited in the Eden Valley just north of the River Eamont, and lies less than 5km outside the boundaries of the Lake District National Park. Other local rivers bounding the town are the River Lowther, and the River Petteril. The Rivers Petteril and Eamont are connected by a partially man-made watercourse flowing through the centre of the town known as Thacka Beck which, for many centuries, provided the town with its main water supply. Image File history File links Dot4gb. ...
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Eden is a local government district in Cumbria, England. ...
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Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ...
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Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ...
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The Ceremonial counties of England are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England. ...
Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ...
The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England. ...
Cumberland is one of the 39 traditional counties of England. ...
There are a number of policing agencies in the United Kingdom. ...
Cumbria Constabulary is the Home Office police force in England covering the county of Cumbria. ...
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The North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust was formed on 1 July 2006 as part of Health Minister Lord Warners plans to reduce the number of NHS ambulance service trusts operating in the United Kingdom to 12. ...
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Penrith and The Border is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ...
The River Eamont is a river in Cumbria, England and one of the major tributaries of the River Eden. ...
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The River Lowther flows through Cumbria in England. ...
The River Petteril is a river running through the English county of Cumbria. ...
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The local authority is Eden District Council, which is based in the town and was formerly the seat of both Penrith Urban and Rural District Councils. Penrith has no town council of its own, and is the second least populated unparished area, after Berwick-upon-Tweed. See below for a short history of the Penrith UDC. Eden is a local government district in Cumbria, England. ...
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In local government on the British Isles, a rural district was a predominantly rural area used for local government. ...
In the United Kingdom, town councils are civil parish councils, where the civil parish is a town. ...
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Map sources for Berwick-upon-Tweed at grid reference NT9952 Berwick-upon-Tweed from across the river Berwick-upon-Tweed, (pronounced Berrick) situated in the county of Northumberland, is the northernmost town in England, situated on the east coast on the mouth of the river Tweed. ...
Meaning of the name Penrith
The name Penrith is Cumbric, the British language spoken in Cumbria until about the 11th century. However, there is a great deal of debate over the meaning of the name Penrith. There are two main strands of opinion. One is that the name comes from the word for "chief ford"; the other is that it means "red hill". It is much more likely that the second theory is the correct one. The main problem with the "chief ford" theory is twofold; first, the nearest ford is located more than a mile away from the original settlement heart of Penrith. Second, the name does not match known Celtic orthography. Celtic languages nearly always used "reversed word order" in placenames. That is, the generic term precedes the specific identifier. For Penrith to mean "chief ford" would require the Cumbrians to have abandoned this naming strategy as the placename elements "pen" and "rhyd" are in the order one would see them in English. Evolution and Extinction Cumbric was the Brythonic Celtic language spoken in much of Cumbria, Northern Northumbria, and parts of lowland Scotland until about the 11th century. ...
The second theory of "red hill" is much more likely. First, it respects the orthography - "hill red". Second, it respects the first principal of toponymy. That is, it identifies what is there at the site and not a location some distance away. The name "red hill" also gains support from other evidence. The modern Welsh name for Penrith is Penrhudd. This also means "red hill" and is pronounced almost the same, albeit with the harsh eth (ð) sound. There is a village near to Penrith named Penruddock which is accepted to be a Cumbric name and to mean "little red hill" (pen + rhudd + og), Furthermore, there is an area between Penrith and Penruddock that is still named Redhills.
Architecture & geology The main church is St. Andrew, built from 1720 to 1722 in an imposing Grecian style, abutting an earlier 13th century tower. The church yard has some ancient crosses and hogback tombstones in it known now as "Giant's Grave", and "Giant's Thumb" which is the remains of a Norse cross dated to 920 AD.[1] Saint Andrew (Greek: Andreas, manly), the Christian Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, was born at Bethsaida on the Lake of Galilee. ...
Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around one thousand years and was extinguished by the newly-powerful Christianity. ...
(12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ...
The ruins of Penrith Castle (1300s-1500s) can be seen from the adjacent train station. The castle is run as a visitor attraction by English Heritage. To the south-east of the town are the more substantial ruins of Brougham Castle, also under the protection of English Heritage. Penrith Castle was built between 1399 and 1470 as a defense against Scottish raids. ...
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Brougham Castle near the confluence of the River Eamont and River Lowther, 2004 Brougham Castle is about 2 miles to the south-east of Penrith, Cumbria (grid reference NY537290). ...
To the south of the town are the ancient henge sites known as "Mayburgh Henge" and "King Arthur's Round Table". Both are under the protection of English Heritage. A henge is a roughly circular or oval-shaped flat area over 20m in diameter which is enclosed and delimited by a boundary earthwork that usually comprises a ditch with an external bank. ...
In the centre of the town is the Clock Tower, erected in 1861 to commemorate Philip Musgrave of Edenhall. 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Penrith has been noted for the number of wells in and around the town, and well-dressing ceremonies were commonplace on certain days in the month of May. Three miles south-east of the town, on the River Eamont are the "Giants' caves", where the well was dedicated to St. Ninian. The caves are enlarged out of Lower Permian sandstones and their associated breccias and purple shales. Wells is a small city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset. ...
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Just to the north of the town is the wooded signal-beacon hill, naturally named Beacon Hill. It last use was probably in 1804 in the war against Napoleon. Traditionally, the Beacon Pike was used to warn of approaching danger from Scotland. Today, although surrounded by a commercial woodland owned by Lowther Estates, the hill still contains some natural woodlands and is a popular local and tourist attraction. On a clear day the majority of the Eden Valley, the local fells, Pennines and parts of the North Lakes can be seen. It is almost certain that the Beacon Hill gave Penrith its name - in Celtic - of "red hill". Beacon Hill is a name shared by many hills, suburbs, villages and other places around the world. ...
1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
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Blencathra and Caldbeck Fells, West of Penrith, viewed from B6412 Road at Culgaith. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2284x1078, 1848 KB) Summary Photo Taken By me on the 28th of February 2006. ...
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Transport & travel The town is on the M6, and also the junction of the A66, A6, and A686. This article concerns the M6 motorway in England. ...
The A66 is a major road in England. ...
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The A686 is a road in northern England. ...
Penrith has a mainline railway station (dating from 1846) called 'Penrith North Lakes', which is served by express inter-city trains from London, Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester and Glasgow. Penrith railway station is located on the West Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom. ...
1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
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Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England, historically notable for being the worlds first industrialised city, and its subsequent central role in the Industrial Revolution. ...
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The National Cycle Network's major National Route 7 runs through the town, and National Route 71 stops just short of the southern edge of the town. The first section of the NCN to be built was the Bristol and Bath Railway Path, opened in 1984. ...
Famous people Penrith was the home town of William Wordsworth's mother, and the poet spent some of his childhood in the town, attending the local school with Mary Hutchinson his later wife. William Wordsworth, English poet William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. ...
The MP and social reformer Samuel Plimsoll spent part of his childhood living at Page Hall in Foster Street. The row of houses at Townhead called Plimsoll Close is named after him. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...
Memorial to Samuel Plimsoll on Victoria Embankment London Samuel Plimsoll (February 10, 1824 - June 3, 1898) was a British politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line. ...
Mary, the wife of the British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson lived in Penrith for part of her life whilst her father was minister at the Congregational Church in Duke Street. Mary Wilson (born 1918) is a British poet, best known as the wife of former British prime minister, Harold Wilson. ...
In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ...
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. ...
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The feature film Withnail and I features the real Penrith very briefly, but most of the filming locations were actually in and around nearby Shap. The famous "Penrith Tea Rooms" scene was filmed in Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes. Withnail and I is a British film made in 1987 by Handmade Films. ...
Shap is a linear village located amongst fells and isolated dales in Eden district, Cumbria UK. The village lies along the A6 road and is near to the M6 motorway. ...
Location within the British Isles. ...
The Borough of Milton Keynes is a unitary authority and borough in south central England, at the northern tip of the South East England Region. ...
Charlie Hunnam, British actor, attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) Penrith and lived locally in the area during his teenage years. He was not well-liked at the time by people in the town, and has since been very critical of local people during his time spent in the area. It is not known if his unpopularity amongst Penrithians caused his criticisms or whether his criticisms caused his unpopularity. Charles Matthew Hunnam (born 10 April 1980 in Newcastle, England) is an English actor. ...
Grammar school can refer to various types of schools in different English-speaking countries. ...
The Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope's mother lived for a while at a house called Carleton Hill (not be confused with Carleton Hall) just outside the town on the Alston road. Charles Dickens is still one of the best known English writers of any era. ...
Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. ...
The Scottish road-builder and enigneer John Loudon Macadam the inventor of "Macadamized" roads (not Tarmacadam as that came later) lived for a while at Cockell House in Townhead. Close by Cockell House today are the streets Macadam Way and Macadam Gardens. see http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=54.669972,-2.756785&spn=0.004517,0.009978&om=1 Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification - by Kenneth I...
John Loudon McAdam (September 21, 1756 - November 26, 1836) was a Scottish engineer and road-builder. ...
Paul Nixon, Leicestershire wicket keeper and current England cricket international was born in Carlisle but grew up in the Penrith area. Paul Andrew Nixon born 21 October 1970, Carlisle, Cumberland, England is an English cricket player who has played for the cricket teams of Leicestershire, England A, Marylebone Cricket Club and Kent External Links Cricket Online Profile Categories: | ...
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Penrith Urban District Council
 Arms of the former Penrith Rural District Council. Penrith Urban District Council was the local authority for the town between 1894 and 1974 when it was replaced by Eden District Council. Arms of Penrith Rural District Council. ...
Arms of Penrith Rural District Council. ...
The authority's area was coterminous with the civil parish of Penrith although when the council was abolished Penrith became an unparished area. A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...
The area had previously been an urban sanitary district presided over by the Local Board of Health. Sanitary Districts were established in England and Wales in 1875 and in Ireland in 1878. ...
As well as the town of itself the district also contained the hamlets of Carleton (now a suburb of Penrith), Bowscar, Plumpton Head and part of the village of Eamont Bridge.
The district was divided into 4 wards namely: North, South, East and West whose boundaries remained the basis of local government divisions in the town until the 1990s. A ward is an electoral district used in local politics, most notably in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and many cities in the United States and the federal district of Washington, DC. Wards are usually named after neighbourhoods...
From 1906 the council was based at Penrith Town Hall which had previously been 2 houses believed to have been designed by Robert Adam. Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 1728 - 3 March 1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer and furniture designer, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. ...
In the 1920s the council came into the possession of Penrith Castle, the grounds of which it turned into a fine public park and also built the Castle Hill or Tyne Close Housing Estate nearby. Further pre-war council housing was built at Fair Hill and Castletown and after World War II at Scaws, Townhead and Pategill. Penrith Castle was built between 1399 and 1470 as a defense against Scottish raids. ...
Cheap, safe, housing owned by the British Government. ...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
The district was surrounded on 3 sides by the Penrith Rural District, the fourth boundary was with Westmorland marked by the River Eamont. Penrith was a rural district within the administrative county of Cumberland, England that existed from 1894 to 1974 with slight boundary changes in 1934. ...
Westmorland (formerly also spelt Westmoreland, an even older spelling is Westmerland) is an area of north west England and one of the 39 historic counties of England. ...
Nightlife As it is a small town relying heavily on agriculture and associated trades, the nightlife in Penrith is not especially notable. Like other rural towns of its size, Penrith relies on public houses to form the basis of social entertainment, and was once famous for the sheer number of pubs in the town. There were once many more pubs in the town than there are now, and the trend of pub closure is still continuing. Despite this, there are still a considerable number of pubs in the town. These range from traditional, small pubs that have a loyal clientele to the bigger bars which form part of the "circuit". Chief among these is 'The Warehouse' which is a large late-license pub which has a slightly more upmarket appearance, and has taken some of the older clientele from the nightclubs. In addition, there are two nightclubs, 'Blues' and 'Toppers'. Both have a reputation for underage drinking and are seen as an essential finish to the evening amongst a certain spectrum of consumer. Of the two, 'Toppers' has the slightly better - among adults - reputation and attracts an older clientele. A thatched pub (The Williams Arms) at Wrafton, near Braunton, North Devon, England The Kings Arms Pub in Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. ...
Penrith also has numerous dining places and restaurants. There are two traditional Italian Sardinian restaurants in the town; Giannis Pizzeria is situated close to the monument and the Villa Bianca (Glen Cottage) is close to the Eden District town hall. Penrith also has another Italian style restaurant (Dolce Vita), a Spanish restaurant (Costa's), 3 Indian restaurants and two Chinese. There are also numerous pubs serving traditional foods such as Cumberland Sausage and Lamb Henry as well as take away restaurants situated within the vicinity of the town centre. The term Sardinian can refer to either: Sardinia the Sardinian language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
// Eden may refer to: Garden of Eden, an original meaning, a place east of Eden described in Book of Genesis. ...
Cumberland Sausages are a type of traditional sausage that originated in the traditional county of Cumberland, England. ...
The Alhambra in Middlegate is a cinema with 2 screens, and is one of the last cinemas in the country to have ice creams served from trays in the auditorium and intervals during long films. The Alhambra also has an adjoining bingo hall. Bingo Bingo is a game of chance where randomly-selected numbers are drawn and players match those numbers to those appearing on 5x5 matrices which are printed or electronically represented and are known as cards. ...
Amateur dramatics and musicals are staged at the Penrith Players Theatre, Ullswater Community College and Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) is a public (private and thus fee-paying) school in Wakefield, England. ...
Penrith Dialect The Penrith dialect known as Penrithian, is a diasystem of the Cumbrian dialect spoken around the Penrith and Eden district area. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Media The local newspaper, the Cumberland and Westmorland Herald, goes on sale every Saturday. Sections of the Herald are updated every following Tuesday on their website. The Herald is independently owned, with offices on King Street, but is printed at the CN Group's printing works in Carlisle, where the weekly Cumberland News and daily evening paper the News and Star which also cover news items from Penrith are printed. CN Group is an independent Local media business which operates in three different media fields. ...
Carlisle is a city in the extreme northwest of England, some 16 km from the border with Scotland. ...
A separate edition of the Herald is published for the Keswick area, and is known as the Lake District Herald. The Moot Hall in the centre of Keswick. ...
Penrith lies with the ITV Border region and the BBC's North East and Cumbria region. ITV (Independent Television) is the name popularly given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the network has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of...
Border Television is the ITV franchisee for the border region between England and Scotland (including the south of Scotland, much of Cumbria and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed), and also the Crown Dependency of the Isle of Man. ...
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There are two local radio stations serving the Penrith area, both based in Carlisle. These are BBC Radio Cumbria and the independent station CFM. BBC Radio Cumbria is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Cumbria and broadcasts from studios in Carlisle. ...
CFM (short for Carlisle FM) is an Independent Local Radio station launched in 1993. ...
Education Penrith has the following schools: Students in Rome, Italy. ...
PRIMARY Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ...
Brunswick Infants (formerly County Infants) Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ...
Beaconside C.E. Infants (formerly Scaws Infants School) The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[1] in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...
Beaconside C.E. Junior The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[1] in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...
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North Lakes School (formerly Wetheriggs Junior) [2]
St Catherines Roman Catholic Primary The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
Hunter Hall, Primary (independent)
SECONDARY High School also refers to the highest form of classical riding, High School Dressage. ...
Ullswater Community College (formerly Ullswater High School)
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) (selective) Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) is a public (private and thus fee-paying) school in Wakefield, England. ...
FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION Further education is education in addition to that received at secondary school. ...
The University of Central Lancashire has a campus just outside the town at Newton Rigg. The University of Central Lancashire (or UCLan) is a university based in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, with additional campuses in Carlisle and Penrith. ...
Ullswater Community College has a large further or adult education centre
Former schools in the town include:
Girls National School (now housing)
Boys National School or St Andrews School for Boys (now demolished)
National Infants School (now Penrith Playgroup Nursery School) Child picking up book. ...
Robinsons School (infants) (now the towns museum and tourist information centre)
County Girls School (now part of Brunswick Infants)
County Boys School (now QEGS Sixth Form Centre)
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Ullswater Secondary Modern (boys only)
Ullswater & Tynefield merged to create Ullswater High in 1980.
Shopping in Penrith As a small market town relying quite heavily on the tourist trade Penrith benefits from a mix of some high street chain stores and many small local specialist shops. Though as has happened with many towns of a similar size a lot of shops have given way to business such as banks, building societies and travel agents The First Provincial Bank of Taiwan in Taipei, Republic of China was formerly the central bank of the Republic of China and issued the New Taiwan dollar. ...
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Market days are Tuesday and Saturday. On Tuesdays there is a small outdoor market in Great Dockray and Cornmarket, once a month this is expanded to include a Farmers' Market in the Market Square as well. On Saturdays at the Auction Mart alongside the M6 motorway Junction 40 takes place Cumbria's largest outdoor market. A free bus service is provided between the Auction Mart and the town centre on Saturdays. Roadside farmers market in Bridgehampton, New York Dutch bell peppers at a farmers market in Montpelier, Vermont A farmers market near the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. ...
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The main shopping areas in the town centre are Middlegate, Little Dockray, Devonshire Street/Market Square, Cornmarket, Angel Lane and the Devonshire Arcade and Angel Square precincts with some shops in Burrowgate, Brunswick Road, Great Dockray and King Street.
Some of the more widely known of the small specialist shops are J & J Graham Grocers and Delicatessen, Arragons Cycle Centre, Arnisons Ladies and Gents Outfitters, Confectioners The Toffee Shop and Cranstons Butchers who have a shop in King Street and also operate the Cumbrian Food Hall on Ullswater Road on the outskirts of the town.
In Middlegate are branches of Woolworths, Argos, Savers and Burtons. While Clinton Cards, Boots the Chemist, W H Smith and Dorothy Perkins are in Angel Square. There are 2 branches of Greggs the baker who also own a large bakery in the town. // About Woolworths Group plc is a general merchandise business in the United Kingdom. ...
Argos is the largest general-goods retailer in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland with over 670 stores. ...
Superdrug on Oxford Street Superdrug, the UKs second largest health and beauty chain (behind Boots), was founded in 1966 when the two brothers, Ronald and Peter Goldstein, opened their first store in Putney High Street, London. ...
A branch of Burton on Buchanan Street in Glasgow Burton is a large United Kingdom high street clothing retailer. ...
Clinton Cards is a chain of stores in the UK founded in 1968 by Don Lewin. ...
Boots is the dominant pharmacist chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. ...
The entrance to a small WH Smith store in York train station This article is about the retail chain; for people of that name, see William Henry Smith. ...
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Greggs plc is the largest specialist retail bakery chain in the United Kingdom. ...
The Penrith Co-operative Society has a large department store and supermarket in Burrowgate close to the bus station. Other supermarkets in the town are Morrisons (formerly Safeway), just outside the town centre on Brunswick Road, Aldi on Ullswater Road and Somerfield (formerly Kwik Save) in King Street; there is also a branch of Spar opposite the Co-op store. The Penrith Co-operative Society, or simply Penrith Co-op, is a small regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. ...
The interior of a typical Macys department store. ...
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Morrisons store in Morecambe, Lancashire Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc (LSE: MRW) is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ...
Safeway was a chain of 479 supermarkets and convenience stores in the UK that is now part of Wm Morrison Supermarkets. ...
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Somerfield is a chain of small to medium-sized supermarkets operating in the United Kingdom. ...
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Next to Aldi are branches of Halfords and Focus DIY. The town's branch of B&Q is on Bridge Lane oppisite the hospital and health centre. Halfords Group plc (LSE: HFD) is a leading retailer of car parts, car enhancement, cycles and travel solutions in the United Kingdom. ...
Focus DIY is a privately owned chain of DIY stores in the UK. It serves the light DIY market sector, and most stores have some form of garden centre. ...
B&Q is a British retailer of DIY and home improvement tools and supplies. ...
Past and present national or regional retailers who at one time had shops in Penrith include Fine Fare, Dewhursts, Gateway, Iceland, Presto Foodmarkets, Greenwoods Menswear, Fosters Menswear, Liptons, Norweb, British Gas, Walter Wilson, Freeman, Hardy and Willis and Currys. Fine Fare was the name of a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom until the mid-1980s. ...
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Penrith New Squares For the past few years controversial plans have been proposed to expand the town centre of Penrith southwards into the Southend Road area which is currently used as car park and sports fields including ones used by Penrith and Penrith United Football Clubs. The first stage of this development has been achieved with the expansion of the swimming pool into a modern leisure centre complex.
The plans for the rest of the scheme have been developed by the property company Lowther Mannelli and include a new Sainsburys supermarket (though previously it was thought that it was going to be a branch of Tesco), new shopping streets, car parking and housing. The name of the scheme is Penrith New Squares as the new shops will be centred around 2 squares which will provide parking and places for public entertainment. J Sainsbury plc is the parent company of Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsburys, which is a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. ...
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If the plans are approved the developers hope to see the first shops open in 2010. Retailers Next, HMV, Waterstones and New Look are believed to be interested in renting units within the scheme. Next on Oxford Street Next PLC is a British clothes retailer, with its headquarters in Enderby, Leicestershire, England. ...
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Areas of Penrith
Castletown Castletown is the area to the west of the railway line and includes the Gilwilly Industrial Estate and part of the Penrith or Myers Industrial Estate. The area - which was originally built to house workers on the railway line - mostly consists of late 19th and early 20th century housing (mainly terraced) including some council housing but in recent years modern housing developments such as Greystoke Park, Castletown Drive and Castle Park have sprung up. The WCML running alongside the M1 motorway at Watford Gap in Northamptonshire A Virgin Pendolino and freight train on the WCML The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important intercity railway lines in the United Kingdom, part of the British railway system. ...
A street of British Victorian/Edwardian terraced homes. ...
There is one pub in the suburb, The Castle Inn and in previous years there was a sub-postoffice, Co-op store and other shops all now closed. Until the 1970s Castletown had its own church, St Saviour's in Brougham Street which acted as a chapel of ease to Penrith's parish church of St Andrew. The Penrith Co-operative Society, or simply Penrith Co-op, is a small regional consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. ...
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[1] in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ...
A chapel of ease is a church building other than the main church of a parish which is more accessible to some parishoners than the main church. ...
A parish church is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. ...
The suburb has a community centre on the recreation ground at Gilwilly and did until recently hold an annual gala day and parade throughout Penrith. At one time in the mid 20th century elections were held amongst regulars at the Castle pub to find a Mayor of Castletown. There is a long standing rivalry between the Castletown and Townhead districts. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Townhead Townhead is the general name for the northern area of the town which also includes the Fair Hill district and the Voreda Park or Anchor housing estate. A housing estate is a medium-to-low density residential area, usually part of a suburb of a town or city in a developed country. ...
The main part of area is built along both sides of the A6 road heading up the hill in the direction of Carlisle. The road is streetnamed as Stricklandgate and Scotland Road but on maps dating before the mid nineteenth century was just marked as Town Head. This article is about the A6 road in England. ...
Town Head was one of the 8 townships or constablewicks that the ancient parish of Penrith was divided into the others were Middlegate, Burrowgate, Sandgate, Dockray and Netherend within the town proper and Plumpton Head and Carleton outside the town. The term township generally means the district or area associated with a town. ...
There are various small businesses in the area including one pub - The Grey Bull, a fish and chip shop, an Indian restaurant and two petrol filling stations one incorporating a sub-postoffice.
The "New Streets" The New Streets is a name for the area between Townhead and Scaws on the side of the Beacon Fell which consists of steep streets of some terraced housing but mainly large detached and semi detached houses cmostly laid out in the late 19th century going up the hill. The streets are - from north to south - Graham Street, Wordsworth Street, Lowther Street, and Arthur Street. The term is sometimes extended to include Fell Lane (which is actually the ancient east road from Penrith town centre leading to Langwathby), and Croft Avenue and Croft Terrace (dating from c.1930). However, the late date of the development of the latter streets place them outwith the traditional definition of the term. At the foot of the streets is Drovers Lane which is sub-divided along its entire length into Wordsworth Terrace, Lowther Terrace, Bath Terrace, Arthur Terrace, Lonsdale Terrace and finally Meeting House Lane. Running along the top of the streets is Beacon Edge from which spectacular views can be seen over the town and towards the Lake District. Until about the turn of the twentieth century, Beacon Edge was known as Beacon Road. As well as the streets going up the fellside there are some that connect the streets such as Beacon Street and smaller housing developments in the gaps between the individual streets. The fellside is known to have been used as a burial ground for victims of the many attacks of plague which struck Penrith down the centuries, and there are also areas which still bear the names of the farming which took place in the area. For example, a now wooded enclosed area on Fell Lane is still known as 'the Pinfold' (or Pinny) and was used to house stray animals until their owner paid a fine to release them. Also, a lane off Beacon Edge is still known as 'Intack Lane' (that is, the lane to farmed land). Most of the land that formed the "intack" itself was used to form Penrith Cemetery. The village of Langwathby lies about 5 miles east of Penrith, Cumbria on the banks of the River Eden. ...
Scaws The Scaws Estate was first built by Penrith Urban District Council almost immediately after World War II on land previously known as The Flatt Field and Scaws Farm which formed part of the Lowther Estates. Scaws Farm is now known as Coldsprings Farm. The name was changed following a murder which took place at the farm. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
The title of Earl of Lonsdale has been created twice - first in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1784 (becoming extinct in 1802), and then in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1807, both times for members of the Lowther family. ...
In later years some private housing was built on the higher parts of the estate.
Beaconside Infants and Junior Schools are located in the centre of the estate and there were at one time 3 corner shops and a launderette in the area. Categories: Stub ...
Adjoining Scaws are the privately owned Barcohill and Meadow Croft housing estates.
Carleton Carleton once a separate settlement is the area of Penrith that has seen the most growth of housing in the past 30 years.
Carleton Village itself is a small line of houses along one side of the A686 road that forms part of the boundary of the town's built up area; at the junction of the A686 and Carleton Road (formerly the A66 road) is a building that until 2004 was the Cross Keys Inn. The A686 is a road in northern England. ...
The A66 is a major road in England. ...
On the other side of the road and to the west of Carleton Road is the large High Carleton housing estate which was started in the 1960s and is still growing. The estate is subdivided into the Frenchfield Way/Gardens area, the original High Carleton area, Carleton Park or Parklands, Carleton Meadows and Carleton Heights most of the streets in this area are named after trees or other plants eg: Oak Road, Sycamore Drive, Juniper Way. A small stream runs through the estate. Oak Road connects Carleton with Meadow Croft and Scaws.
To the west of High Carleton is Winters Park where Penrith Rugby Union Football Club has its ground and the Carleton Hall Gardens estate. A rugby union scrum. ...
Carleton Hall is the headquarters of the Cumbria Constabulary. Cumbria Constabulary is the Home Office police force in England covering the county of Cumbria. ...
At Frenchfield just south of Carleton Village towards Brougham Castle is the Hunter Hall Private Prepartory School and new Eden District Council-owned sports pitches. Brougham Castle near the confluence of the River Eamont and River Lowther, 2004 Brougham Castle is about 2 miles to the south-east of Penrith, Cumbria (grid reference NY537290). ...
Pategill Adjoining Carleton is the Pategill Estate which started as a council estate in the 1960s and is still mostly owned by housing associations. Two streets on the estate namely Prince Charles Close and Jubilee Close were opened by HRH The Prince of Wales in 1977. The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor; born Windsor, 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ...
The centre of the estate is accessible by foot only and there is a small convenience store here. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Several properties are run as sheltered accommodation for the elderly.
Wetheriggs The Wetheriggs, Skirsgill and Castle Hill or Tyne Close areas were first developed in the 1920s by the Penrith UDC on land formerly known as Scumscaw and the first private housing to be developed was Holme Riggs Avenue and Skirsgill Gardens just prior to World War 2.
Further development did not start until the 1960s and 1970s when land between Wetheriggs Lane and Ullswater Road was built on though it was not until the late 1980s that the two roads were connected after the building of the Clifford Road extension which saw the Skirsgill area developed.
Within the area are 3 schools: Ullswater Community College. North Lakes Junior and QEGS. The Crescent on Clifford Road is a block of elderly sheltered accommodation. There was formerly a shop at the junction of Huntley Avenue and Clifford Road next to North Lakes School.
The large North Lakes Hotel and Spa stands at the junction of Clifford and Ullswater Roads overlooking the Skirsgill Junction 40 Interchange of the M6 motorway, A66 and A592 roads. The 4-star Manor House Hotel at Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England. ...
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The A592 road is a major route running north-south through the English Lake District. ...
Local Government Divisions For the purposes of electing councilors to Eden District Council the unparished area of Penrith is divided into 6 wards: ...
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Penrith West which includes Castletown and parts of the town centre and Townhead.
Penrith North: part of the town centre, the New Streets, most of Townhead and the outlying settlements of Roundthorn, Bowscar and Plumpton Head.
Penrith South: Wetheriggs, Castle Hill, a small part of the town centre, part of Eamont Bridge and part of the Bridge Lane/Victoria Road area. Eamont Bridge is a small linear village immediately to the south of Penrith, Cumbria of which it could be said forms an outlying suburb of. ...
Penrith East: part of the town centre, Scaws, Carleton Park and Barco
Penrith Carleton (formerly part of Penrith East): Carleton Village, High Carleton, Carleton Heights, Carleton Hall Gardens
Penrith Pategill (also formerly part of Penrith East): Pategill, Carleton Drive/Place, Tynefield Drive/Court and part of Eamont Bridge. Eamont Bridge is a small linear village immediately to the south of Penrith, Cumbria of which it could be said forms an outlying suburb of. ...
Penrith West and South wards make up the Penrith West Electoral Division of Cumbria County Council whereas East, Carleton and Pategill combine in the Penrith East division and Penrith North along with the rural Lazonby and Great Salkeld wards make up the Penrith North division.
Penrith Sport Penrith is home to Penrith Rugby Union Football Club. Penrith RUFC currently play in the Powergen North League 1. Home games are played at Winters Park in Penrith.
Penrith F.C. currently play in the Arngrove Northern League 2. Penrith F.C. is a football club based in Penrith, England. ...
Location of Penrith There are several places in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, called Plumpton: Plumpton, Cumbria, England Plumpton, Northamptonshire, England Plumpton, East Sussex, England Plumpton, New South Wales, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The Moot Hall in the centre of Keswick. ...
The village of Langwathby lies about 5 miles east of Penrith, Cumbria on the banks of the River Eden. ...
Shap is a linear village located amongst fells and isolated dales in Eden district, Cumbria UK. The village lies along the A6 road and is near to the M6 motorway. ...
Further reading
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1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
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