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Thrimby

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

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

{{Infobox UK place

| static_image_name = Out Scar - geograph.org.uk - 549743.jpg

| static_image_caption = Out Scar

| official_name = Thrimby

| country = England

| region = North West England

| os_grid_reference = NY5520

| coordinates = {{coord|54.578|-2.69|display=inline,title}}

| post_town = PENRITH

| population = 30

| population_ref = (2001)

| postcode_area = CA

| postcode_district = CA10

| dial_code = 01931

| constituency_westminster = Westmorland and Lonsdale

| civil_parish = Little Strickland

|unitary_england= Westmorland and Furness

|lieutenancy_england= Cumbria

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Eden

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Eden, Cumbria

| label_position =

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Thrimby is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Little Strickland, in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Thrimby was 30.[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790349 Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Eden] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009005239/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790349 |date=9 October 2014 }} Retrieved 10 March 2011 The population measured at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the parish of Great Strickland. It has a Grade 2* farmhouse called Thrimby Hall,{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-74375-thrimby-hall-thrimby|title = Thrimby Hall, Thrimby, Cumbria}}{{cite web| url = http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/lgaz/lk11750.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120905082919/http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/lgaz/lk11750.htm| archive-date = 2012-09-05| title = Old Cumbria Gazetteer, Thrimby Hall, Thrimby}} as seen in series 4 of the BBC Two fly-on-the-wall farming documentary "This Farming Life".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094mqlx|title = BBC Two - This Farming Life}}

History

Thrimby was a chapelry with 2 townships within Morland parish.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4955|title=History of Thrimby, in Eden and Westmorland|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=31 December 2021}} It became a civil parish in 1866.{{cite web|url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10171787|title=Relationships and changes Thrimby CP/Tn/Ch through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=13 May 2019}} On 1 April 2019 the parish was merged with Little Strickland.{{cite web|url=http://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/Reviews/North%20West/Cumbria/CGRs/reorganisationorder_littlestrickland_thrimby_final_signed_dated.pdf|title=The Eden District Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) (Little Strickland and Thrimby) Order 2019|publisher=Local Government Boundary Commission for England|accessdate=13 May 2019}}

On 23 October 1970, the nine-mile Tebay to Thrimby section of the M6 was opened,{{cite news|newspaper=The Visitor|url=http://www.thevisitor.co.uk/lifestyle/lancaster-nostalgia-ups-and-downs-of-building-the-m6-1-7686713|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20170906223450/http://www.thevisitor.co.uk/lifestyle/lancaster-nostalgia-ups-and-downs-of-building-the-m6-1-7686713 |archivedate=6 September 2017|date= 23 January 2016|title= Lancaster nostalgia: ups and downs of building the M6}} built by Christiani-Shand. The section terminated on the A6. The next junction further north would be at Penrith (A66).

See also

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References

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External links

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  • {{cite web|url=http://www.cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/township/thrimby|title=Cumbria County History Trust: Thrimby}} (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WES/Thrimby/index.htm|title=Thrimby|website=GENUKI| accessdate=3 August 2023}}
  • {{cite web|url= https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/thrimby-eden-cumbria|title= Listed Buildings in Thrimby, Eden, Cumbria|accessdate=3 August 2023|website=British Listed Buildings}}
  • {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fvmpPRwVc_IC&dq=thrimby&pg=PA438| title=Westmorland Heritage|first=A.|last=Wainwright|authorlink= Alfred Wainwright |publisher=Frances Lincoln Limited|date=2004|isbn=9780711224193}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.visitcumbria.com/churches/little-strickland-st-marys-church.htm|title= Little Strickland (Thrimby) – St Mary’s Church|website=Visit Cumbria|accessdate=3 August 2023}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.morlandchurch.org.uk/thrimby/index.htm|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160329122410/http://www.morlandchurch.org.uk/thrimby/index.htm|archivedate=29 March 2016|title= St Mary's Church, Thrimby, in Little Strickland}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/thrimby-st-mary/|title= St Mary, Little Strickland|website=A Church Near You|accessdate=3 August 2023}}

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Category:Hamlets in Cumbria

Category:Former civil parishes in Cumbria

Category:Little Strickland

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