Frizington is a village in Cumbria, England, historically part of Cumberland, near the Lake District National Park.
| Frizington | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
 St Paul's Church, Frizington | |
  Frizington Location in the former Copeland Borough  Frizington Location within Cumbria | |
| Population | 3,607 (2011.Civil Parish) |
| OS grid reference | NY0316 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | FRIZINGTON |
| Postcode district | CA26 |
| Dialling code | 01946 |
| Police | Cumbria |
| Fire | Cumbria |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
Historically, it was a collection of farms and houses, but became a unified village as a result of the mining (both coal and iron ore) opportunities in the area. The village is known for its church, which was built in 1867–1868.
Location
editIt lies by road five miles (eight kilometres) east of Whitehaven, 38 miles (61 kilometres) southwest of Carlisle, and 44+1⁄2 miles (72 kilometres) north of Barrow-in-Furness.
Etymology
edit"The name as a whole means 'tūn of Frisa' or 'of Frisa's people'"[1] ('tūn' is Old English for 'homestead', 'village'; OE 'Frīsa' means 'the Frisian').
Governance
editFrizington is within the Copeland UK Parliamentary constituency and the North West England European Parliamentary constituency. Trudy Harrison is the Conservative Member of parliament for Copeland.
For the European Parliament residents in Frizington voted to elect MEP's for the North West England constituency.
Before Brexit, for Local Government purposes it is in the Arlecdon + Ennerdale ward of the Borough of Copeland and the Cleator Moor East + Frizington ward of Cumbria County Council.
Frizington has its own Parish Council; Arlecdon & Frizington Parish Council, the civil parish of Arlecdon and Frizington, has a population of 3,678,[2]
Notable people
editStephen Holgate, a professional rugby league player with a number of clubs, came from Frizington.
June 2010 shootings
editOn 2 June 2010, Frizington was the scene of the second murder in the killing spree known as the Cumbria shootings, when Derrick Bird shot his family solicitor, Kevin Commons.[3]
See also
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References
edit- ^ Armstrong, A. M.; Mawer, A.; Stenton, F. M.; Dickens, B. (1950). The place-names of Cumberland. English Place-Name Society, vol. xxi. Vol. Part 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 336.
- ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Copeland Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2009-09-18
- ^ "Cumbria Shootings - Interactive Map". BBC. 3 June 2010. Retrieved 4 June 2010.
External links
edit- Cumbria County History Trust: Arlecdon (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
- Frizington Cumbria, from The Cumbria Directory.
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