Crooklands
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Crooklands is a hamlet in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, south of Kendal on the A65 road and the Lancaster Canal. Historically part of Westmorland, it is in the parish of Preston Richard but adjacent to Preston Patrick to the south east, the boundary roughly following Peasey Beck. The adjacent showfield of the Westmorland County Agricultural Society is the venue of the annual Westmorland County Show (first held 1799, moved to this site late 20th century), Country Fest (since 2009) and various other events.
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Preston Richard
- Population
- 2176
- Image
- Church and School Houses, Crooklands - geograph.org.uk - 605955.jpg
- Dialing code
- 015395
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- Commons category
- Crooklands
- postal code
- LA7
- OS grid reference
- SD534835
- historic county
- Westmorland
- P8168
- Freguesia de Gondar
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Crooklands is a hamlet in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, south of Kendal on the A65 road and the Lancaster Canal. Historically part of Westmorland, it is in the parish of Preston Richard but adjacent to Preston Patrick to the south east, the boundary roughly following Peasey Beck. The adjacent showfield of the Westmorland County Agricultural Society is the venue of the annual Westmorland County Show (first held 1799, moved to this site late 20th century), Country Fest (since 2009) and various other events.
Crooklands is in the Levens and Crooklands ward which elects one councillor to the unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness. It is in the Morecambe and Lunesdale parliamentary constituency.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crooklands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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