Frizington

It lies by road {{convert|5|mi|km|0|abbr=off|spell=on}} east of Whitehaven, {{convert|38|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} southwest of Carlisle, and {{convert|44+1/2|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} north of Barrow-in-Furness.

"The name as a whole means 'tūn of Frisa' or 'of Frisa's people'"{{Cite book |last=Armstrong |first=A. M. |title=The place-names of Cumberland |last2=Mawer |first2=A. |last3=Stenton |first3=F. M. |last4=Dickens |first4=B. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1950 |series=English Place-Name Society, vol. xxi |volume=Part 2 |location=Cambridge |page=336}} ('tūn' is Old English for 'homestead', 'village'; OE 'Frīsa' means 'the Frisian').

Frizington forms part of the civil parish of Arlecdon and Frizington. There are two tiers of local government, at civil parish and unitary authority level: Arlecdon and Frizington Parish Council and Cumberland Council.{{cite web |title=Election Maps |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=2 April 2025}}{{cite web |title=About the Parish |url=https://www.arlecdonandfrizingtonparishcouncil.co.uk/about-the-parish/ |website=Arlecdon and Frizington Parish Council |access-date=2 April 2025}} The parish council generally meets at St Joseph's Community Hall in Frizington.{{cite web |title=Meetings |url=https://www.arlecdonandfrizingtonparishcouncil.co.uk/meetings/ |website=Arlecdon and Frizington Parish Council |access-date=2 April 2025}}

Frizington is within the Whitehaven and Workington UK Parliamentary constituency.

Frizington was historically one of three townships within the ancient parish of Arlecdon in the historic county of Cumberland; the other two townships were Whillimoor and Arlecdon.{{cite web |title=Arlecdon, Cumberland |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/806 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=2 April 2025}}{{cite book |title=Census of England and Wales, 1871: Volume 2 |date=1872 |publisher=Census Office |page=507 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Census_of_England_and_Wales_1871/oQQ4AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA507&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2 April 2025}}{{cite web |title=Cumberland Sheet LXII |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102340872 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=2 April 2025 |date=1867}}

In 1882, a local government district called Arlecdon and Frizington was created, covering those two townships.{{cite book |title=Public Bills: Volume 4 |date=1884 |publisher=House of Lords |page=3 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Public_Bills/yhtcAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA3-PA3&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2 April 2025}}{{cite web |title=Arlecdon and Frizington Water Act 1879 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/42-43/131/pdfs/ukla_18790131_en.pdf |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=2 April 2025}} The Arlecdon and Frizington district was enlarged in 1894 to take in the Whillimoor township, after which the Arlecdon and Frizington district covered the whole parish of Arlecdon.{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the Local Government Board |date=1895 |page=240 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Annual_Report_of_the_Local_Government_Bo/gFIwAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA240&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2 April 2025}} Later that year, local government districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894.{{cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Cumberland |date=1906 |page=27 |url=https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/45963/rec/2 |access-date=2 April 2025}}

Arlecdon and Frizington Urban District was abolished in 1934. The parish of Arlecdon it had covered was renamed Arlecdon and Frizington, given a parish council, and reclassified as a rural parish within the Ennerdale Rural District.{{cite web |title=Arlecdon and Frizington Ancient Parish / Civil Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10117884 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=2 April 2025}} Ennerdale Rural District was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the Borough of Copeland in the new county of Cumbria.{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|year=1972|number=2039|accessdate=3 March 2023}}{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|accessdate=3 March 2023}} Copeland was in turn abolished in 2023 when the new Cumberland Council was created, also taking over the functions of the abolished Cumbria County Council in the area.{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022|year=2022|number=331|access-date=24 January 2024}}

Stephen Holgate, a professional rugby league player with a number of clubs, came from Frizington.

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On 2 June 2010, Frizington was the scene of the second murder in the killing spree known as the Cumbria shootings, when Derrick Bird shot his family solicitor, Kevin Commons.{{Cite news |date=2010-06-03 |title=Cumbria Shootings - Interactive Map |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10232051.stm |accessdate=2010-06-04}}

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• Listed buildings in Arlecdon and Frizington

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• [http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/arlecdon Cumbria County History Trust: Arlecdon] (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
• [http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Town_or_Village/location.php?url=frizington Frizington Cumbria], from The Cumbria Directory.

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