Blencarn

Blencarn is a small village located in Westmorland and Furness in Cumbria, England. The village is situated at the foot of the Pennines.

Blencarn
The village green, Blencarn
Blencarn Location in Eden, Cumbria Show map of the former Eden District Blencarn Location within Cumbria Show map of Cumbria
OS grid reference	NY637312
Civil parish	Culgaith
Unitary authority	Westmorland and Furness
Ceremonial county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PENRITH
Postcode district	CA10
Dialling code	01768
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Penrith and Solway
List of places UK England Cumbria 54.675°N 2.562°W / 54.675; -2.562

It has a small village hall that used to be a school.

In Blencarn there is fly fishing at the 15-acre (61,000 m²) Blencarn lake.

Geography

Blencarn is located in the Eden valley near the Pennines. Blencarn is situated 2.86 km west of Kirkland fell and Cross Fell. A number of streams run nearby: Blencarn Beck, Crowdundle Beck, Skirwith Beck, Kirkland Beck, Sunndgill Beck and Aigill Sike as well as Blencarn lake. The village of Kirkland is located 1.31 km northeast. The village of Milburn is located 2.26 km south and the village of Skirwith 2.05 km north.

History

There has been activity near Blencarn as early as the Roman era. An old Roman road known as Maiden Way once ran nearby and 1.27 km northeast near the farm of Ranbeck lies various ancient "cultivation terraces" known as "The Hanging Walls of Mark Antony".

Blencarn is marked as "Blenkerne" on Christopher Saxton’s 1579 map of Westmorland and Cumberland, as "Blenkern" on a 1760 map of the area and as its current name on Carry's 1794 map of England, Scotland and Wales.

1988 crash

On Tuesday 9 August 1988 at 9.30pm two Panavia Tornado aircraft collided from RAF Cottesmore TTTE and 617 Sqn at RAF Marham.^[1] All were killed. The Marham aircraft 'ZA593'^[2] had pilot Flt Lt Colin Douglas Oliver, aged 30, from Swaffham, originally from Bristol, and navigator Flt Lt Anthony Cook, aged 29, from Kings Lynn, and married with two children. The Cottesmore aircraft 'ZA329'^[3] had pilot Flt Lt John Watts, aged 32, from Castle Bytham in Lincolnshire, but originally from Surrey, an instructor who was married, with a German trainee navigator Lt Ulrich Sayer, aged 23.^[4]

Notable people

It is the home of the notable painter and printmaker Alan Stones.^[5]