Crooklands

{{Short description|Hamlet in Cumbria, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=September 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| static_image_name = Crooklands Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 951684.jpg

| static_image_caption = Crooklands Hotel on the A590 road

| coordinates = {{coord|54.2450|-2.7150|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Crooklands

| population = 2,176

| population_ref = (2011.Ward)

| civil_parish = Preston Patrick

| unitary_england = Westmorland and Furness

| lieutenancy_england = Cumbria

| region = North West England

| constituency_westminster = Morecambe and Lunesdale

| post_town = MILNTHORPE

| postcode_district = LA7

| postcode_area = LA

| dial_code = 015395

| os_grid_reference = SD534835

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom South Lakeland

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in the former South Lakeland district

}}

Crooklands is a hamlet in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, {{convert|4.5|mi|km}} south of Kendal on the A65 road and the Lancaster Canal. Historically part of Westmorland, it is in the parish of Preston Richard but adjacent to Preston Patrick to the south east, the boundary roughly following Peasey Beck.{{cite web |title=Preston Richard |url=https://mapit.mysociety.org/area/56456.html |website=mapit.mysociety.org |access-date=5 December 2024}}{{cite web |title=Preston Patrick |url=https://mapit.mysociety.org/area/53405.html |website=mapit.mysociety.org |publisher=Mapit |access-date=5 December 2024}} The adjacent showfield of the Westmorland County Agricultural Society is the venue of the annual Westmorland County Show (first held 1799, moved to this site late 20th century), Country Fest (since 2009) and various other events.

Crooklands is in the Levens and Crooklands ward which elects one councillor to the unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness.{{cite web |title=Your Councillors by Ward |url=https://westmorlandandfurness.moderngov.co.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0 |website=www.westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk |publisher=Westmorland & Furness Council |access-date=5 December 2024 |language=en |date=5 December 2024}}{{cite web |title=Levens and Crooklands - MapIt |url=https://mapit.mysociety.org/area/166664.html |website=mapit.mysociety.org |access-date=5 December 2024}} It is in the Morecambe and Lunesdale parliamentary constituency.{{cite web |title=Morecambe and Lunesdale |url=https://mapit.mysociety.org/area/169653.html |website=mapit.mysociety.org |publisher=MapIt |access-date=5 December 2024}}

Crooklands was previously the name of a ward which elected one councillor to South Lakeland district council.{{cite web|title=Councillors by ward|url=http://democracy.southlakeland.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0|work=South Lakeland District Council|accessdate=11 October 2013}} The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 2,146.

In the 1870s Crooklands was described as "a hamlet in Preston-Richard township, Heversham parish".{{cite web|last=Wilson|first=John Marius|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=818680&word=NULL|title=Crooklands |work=Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales|accessdate=9 September 2011|date=1870{{ndash}}72}} Preston Richard is now a separate parish from Heversham.

File:Crooklands Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 3694943.jpg

Crooklands Bridge, which carries the B6385 Milnthorpe road over the canal, was built {{c.|1818}} and is grade II listed,{{NHLE|num=1086527| desc=Crooklands Bridge over Kendal Lancaster Canal |access-date=5 December 2024}} as is the water mill at Milton, south west of Crooklands, sometimes described as being at Crooklands.{{NHLE|num=1086529| desc=Milton Mill House and Attached Mill |access-date=5 December 2024}}{{cite web |title=Milton Mill, Crooklands |url=https://new.millsarchive.org/mills/index/?which=3832 |website=The Mills Archive |access-date=5 December 2024}} The Crooklands Hotel, on the A590, is a mid 18th-century former farmhouse.{{cite web |title=The Inn |url=https://www.crooklands.com/the-inn/ |website=Crooklands |access-date=5 December 2024}}

Junction 36 of the M6 motorway, to the south east of the hamlet where the motorway connects to the A65 and the A590, is sometimes referred to as Crooklands Interchange.{{cite web |title=M6 J36 Crooklands Interchange |url=https://www.roads.org.uk/motorway/m6/140 |website=www.roads.org.uk |access-date=5 December 2024 |language=en |date=22 April 2017}}