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Kirkby Lonsdale (/ ˈ k ɜːr b i ˈ l ɒ n z d eɪ l /) is a town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, on the River Lune. Historically in Westmorland , it lies 13 miles (21 km) south-east of Kendal on the A65 .
Blea Tarn from Lingmoor Fell. The following is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom.In England the body responsible for designating SSSIs is Natural England, which chooses a site because of its fauna, flora, geological or physiographical features.
There are a limited number of commercially available diamond mines currently operating in the world, with the 50 largest mines accounting for approximately 90% of global supply. [1] Diamonds are also mined alluvially over disperse areas, where diamonds have been eroded out of the ground, deposited, and concentrated by water or weather action.
Casterton is a small village and civil parish close to Kirkby Lonsdale on the River Lune in the south east corner of Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 500, [2] decreasing at the 2011 census to 425. [1]
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Modern Painters (1843–1860) is a five-volume work by the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. [1] Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters.
Kirkby-in-Ashfield lies on the eastern edge of the Erewash Valley which separates Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.Kirkby, as it is locally known, was originally a Danish settlement (Kirk-by translates as 'Church Town' in Danish) [1] and is a collection of small villages including Old Kirkby, The Folly (East Kirkby), Nuncargate and Kirkby Woodhouse.
The quarrying at Burlington can be directly related to the development of Kirkby, which merged from six smaller farming hamlets: Soutergate, Wall End, Beck Side, Sand Side, Marshside and Chapels. The opening of the slate quarry helped merge these, the name Kirkby dating from the construction of the Cumbrian Coast railway line to the village.