Silloth
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Silloth, or Silloth-on-Solway, is a port town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town stands on the coast of the Solway Firth, west of Carlisle. It was developed from the 1850s onwards around a new harbour, and also became a small seaside resort. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 2,749.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Silloth
- UK place.type
- Town and parish
- UK place.static_image_name
- Criffel Street, Silloth.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Criffel Street, Silloth
- UK place.population
- 2,749
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Silloth-on-Solway
- UK place.unitary_england
- Cumberland
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Cumbria
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Penrith and Solway
- UK place.post_town
- WIGTON
- UK place.postcode_district
- CA7
- UK place.postcode_area
- CA
- UK place.dial_code
- 016973
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NY113536
- UK place.local_name
- Silloth-on-Solway
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Demography
- Churches
- Industry
- Port of Silloth
- Carr's Flour Mill
- Cheri Foam
- Other
- Tourism
- Transport
- Railway
- Bus
- Road
- Sports
- Silloth A.F.C.
- Media
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Silloth, or Silloth-on-Solway, is a port town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town stands on the coast of the Solway Firth, west of Carlisle. It was developed from the 1850s onwards around a new harbour, and also became a small seaside resort. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 2,749.
==Toponymy== 'Silloth' means "'sea barn(s)', v. 'sǣ hlaða'." (The first word is Old English, the second is Old Norse).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silloth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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