Whale, Cumbria

Whale
Hamlet
Whale
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OS grid reference	NY520215
Civil parish	Lowther
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	01931
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Penrith and The Border

Whale is a hamlet in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, Cumbria, England. Historically in Westmorland, it is about a mile south of the village of Askham. In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 it had a population of 53.^[1]

Toponymy

The name Whale comes from the same Anglo-Saxon language root as the country Wales, meaning 'foreigners'.^[2] It was given by the Angles of Helton to the Celtic inhabitants of the opposite side of the River Lowther, c. the 9th century.^[3]

Location grid

See also

• Listed buildings in Lowther, Cumbria

References

1. "Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHALE". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
2. "Welsh language history - place names". Wales. 27 November 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
3. Sullivan, Jeremiah (1857). Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and Customs. Whittaker and Company. p. 82.