Blencarn
{{Short description|Village in Cumbria, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| static_image_name = The village green, Blencarn, Culgaith CP - geograph.org.uk - 286850.jpg
| static_image_caption = The village green, Blencarn
| coordinates = {{coord|54.675|-2.562|display=inline,title}}
| official_name = Blencarn
| population =
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| civil_parish = Culgaith
|unitary_england= Westmorland and Furness
|lieutenancy_england= Cumbria
| region = North West England
| constituency_westminster = Penrith and Solway
| post_town = PENRITH
| postcode_district = CA10
| postcode_area = CA
| dial_code = 01768
| os_grid_reference = NY637312
| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Eden
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Eden, Cumbria
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Blencarn is a small village located in Westmorland and Furness in 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 {{convert|15|acre|m2|adj=on}} Blencarn lake.
Geography
Blencarn is located in the Eden valley near the Pennines. Blencarn is situated 2.86 km west of Kirkland fell and Cross Fell. A number of streams run nearby: Blencarn Beck, Crowdundle Beck, Skirwith Beck, Kirkland Beck, Sunndgill Beck and Aigill Sike as well as Blencarn lake.
The village of Kirkland is located 1.31 km northeast. The village of Milburn is located 2.26 km south and the village of Skirwith 2.05 km north.
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.
=1988 crash=
On Tuesday 9 August 1988 at 9.30pm two Panavia Tornado aircraft collided from RAF Cottesmore TTTE and 617 Sqn at RAF Marham.Times Wednesday August 10 1988, page 1 All were killed. The Marham aircraft 'ZA593'{{Cite web|url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/55446|title=Accident Panavia Tornado GR1 ZA593, Tuesday 9 August 1988|first=Harro|last=Ranter|website=asn.flightsafety.org}} had pilot Flt Lt Colin Douglas Oliver, aged 30, from Swaffham, originally from Bristol, and navigator Flt Lt Anthony Cook, aged 29, from Kings Lynn, and married with two children. The Cottesmore aircraft 'ZA329'{{Cite web|url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/55445|title=Accident Panavia Tornado GR Mk 1 ZA329, Tuesday 9 August 1988|first=Harro|last=Ranter|website=asn.flightsafety.org}} had pilot Flt Lt John Watts, aged 32, from Castle Bytham in Lincolnshire, but originally from Surrey, an instructor who was married, with a German trainee navigator Lt Ulrich Sayer, aged 23.Times Thursday August 11 1988, page 1
Notable people
It is the home of the notable painter and printmaker Alan Stones.{{cite web|url=http://www.alanstones.co.uk/ |title=AlanStones.co.uk |publisher=Alan Stones |date= |accessdate=2013-02-03}}{{primary-source-inline|date=February 2013}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Blencarn}}
- [http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/kirkland-blencarn Cumbria County History Trust: Kirkland and Blencarn] (provisional research only)
- [http://blencarn.emyspot.com/ Kirkland & Blencarn Village Hall General Information]
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Category:Westmorland and Furness
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