Jericho, Cumbria

Jericho

The farmhouse at Jericho, Cumbria
Jericho
 Jericho shown within Cumbria
OS grid referenceNY113463
Civil parishHolme St Cuthbert
DistrictAllerdale
Shire countyCumbria
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Maryport
Postcode district CA15
Dialling code 01900
Police Cumbria
Fire Cumbria
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK ParliamentWorkington
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Cumbria

Coordinates: 54°48′14″N 3°22′48″W / 54.804°N 3.380°W / 54.804; -3.380

Jericho is a small settlement in the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert in Cumbria, United Kingdom.[1] It is located 2 miles east of the village of Mawbray, and 21.5 miles south-west of the city of Carlisle. It was presumably named for the Biblical city of Jericho, today located in the Palestinian territories.

The settlement appears in birth, marriage, and death registrations from as early as the mid-19th century,[2] and so certainly existed by that time. Jericho consists of only a single farmhouse,[3] and perhaps due to its particularly small size there is not a great deal of historical information about the settlement. It is not even named on contemporary mapping projects such as Google Maps.[4]

Nearby is the Overby sand quarry, where Thomas Armstrong Ltd. extracts sand from a large deposit left behind after the last ice age. Work has been ongoing at the quarry, and other surrounding satellite quarries, for the past fifty years.[5]

Jericho is located at a staggered crossroads, where single-lane roads lead north-east in the direction of Tarns, east toward Aikshaw and the Overby sand quarry, south-west to Edderside and the coast, and north-west to Holme St. Cuthbert via Goodyhills. The settlement has no public transportation links; the closest regular bus stop is on the B5300 coast road, 2.5 miles to the south-west.[6]

References

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  1. ↑ "Historical Place Names - Jericho". Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Brough Family". Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Marra Man - Jericho". Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Google Maps - Holme St. Cuthbert area". Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Stephenson-Halliday - Overby Sand Quarry". Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Reays - City Hopper 60". Retrieved 9 January 2015.


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