Kirksanton
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Kirksanton is a village on the A5093 road, in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Nearby settlements include the town of Millom, and the villages of Silecroft and Whicham.
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It sits within the topics Villages in Cumbria and Whicham.
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Place details
- Locality
- Millom
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,849
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Whicham
- Image
- King William IV Free House (geograph 4226878).jpg
- Dialing code
- 01229
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- Kirksanton
- OS grid reference
- SD139807
- historic county
- Cumberland
- P8168
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Kirksanton is a village on the A5093 road, in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria, England. Nearby settlements include the town of Millom, and the villages of Silecroft and Whicham.
In April 2009, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband included Kirksanton in a list of eleven potential new nuclear power plants. The site was ruled out by the new Government's Energy Secretary Chris Huhne in October 2010 when the list of potential sites was reduced to eight, Braystones the only other potential new nuclear site at the time, was subsequently rejected also.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kirksanton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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