Harker, Cumbria

{{Short description|Settlement in England}}

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

{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| static_image_name = Geese - geograph.org.uk - 319549.jpg

| static_image_caption = Geese at Harker

| coordinates = {{coord|54.938|-2.944|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Harker

| population =

| population_ref =

| civil_parish = Rockcliffe

| unitary_england = Cumberland

| lieutenancy_england = Cumbria

| region = North West England

| constituency_westminster = Carlisle

| post_town = CARLISLE

| postcode_district = CA6

| postcode_area = CA

| dial_code = 01228

| os_grid_reference = NY395607

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom City of Carlisle

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in the City of Carlisle district, Cumbria

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Harker is a settlement in the parish of Rockcliffe, in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Harker is located along the A7 roadPhilip's Motorist's Atlas: 2004, Octopus Publishing Group, London, England on the Solway Plain. Harker is situated approximately two miles north of the course of Hadrian's Wall.

From 1862, Harker was served by a railway station, sited on the Waverley route that linked Carlisle and Edinburgh. The station was closed to passengers in 1929. It reopened (unstaffed) in 1936 to serve Carlisle airfield and remained intermittently in use, serving local RAF airfield and Maintenance Unit 14MU operations, as well as the local community, until the closure of the line in 1969.

Harker is also associated with the Surname Harker.{{cite web| url = http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?view=1&surname=harker| title = Harker Name Meaning & Harker Family History at Ancestry.com®}}