Cartmel

Coordinates: 54°11′56″N 2°57′04″W / 54.199°N 2.951°W / 54.199; -2.951
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Cartmel
Cartmel village by the River Eea
Cartmel is located in Cumbria
Cartmel
Cartmel
Location within Cumbria
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Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGRANGE-OVER-SANDS
Postcode districtLA11
Dialling code015395
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54°11′56″N 2°57′04″W / 54.199°N 2.951°W / 54.199; -2.951
Cartmel Priory

Cartmel is a village in Cumbria, England, 2+1⁄4 miles (3.5 kilometres) northwest of Grange-over-Sands close to the River Eea. The village takes its name from the Cartmel Peninsula, and was historically known as Kirkby in Cartmel. The village is the location of the 12th-century Cartmel Priory, around which it initially grew. Situated in the historic county of Lancashire, since 1974 Cartmel has been part of the ceremonial county of Cumbria.

Whilst its history has been in its ecclesiastical and agricultural communities, Cartmel has since the mid-twentieth century developed as a minor tourist destination, being just outside the

Michelin-starred restaurant
, cater to this tourist trade.

History

The name Cartmel means ‘sandbank by rocky ground’, from the

St Cuthbert, whose influence may explain why by the Norman Conquest the village was known as Kirkby, a name indicating the location of a church.[3]

Cavendish Family, and today is the home of Lord Cavendish. As well as the estate around Holker, the Cavendish family still owns much of the land of the Peninsula.[5]

Agriculture was the chief industry of the area until the mid-twentieth century,

Cark and Cartmel
.

Hospitality and Tourism

Tourism has grown in the village since the middle of the twentieth century. In 1923 Cartmel Priory Gatehouse became a museum for the Priory, and was used for exhibitions and meetings, before being presented to the National Trust in 1946. By 2011 it was mainly in private residential use, although the Great Room is opened to the public on several days a year.[7] The Priory itself is still the local parish church, but is open to visitors outside of service times.[8]

Whit Week.[9]

Writers who encouraged the growth of tourism to Cartmel include Lancashire dialect writer and BBC broadcaster, Thomas Thompson, who authored sixteen books on Lancashire people and their communities and was fond of Cartmel. The frontispiece in his 1937 book Lancashire Brew is 'Cartmel from an etching by Joseph Knight', the founder of the Manchester School of Painters. Later Alfred Wainwright dedicated a chapter to Cartmel Fell, about seven miles (eleven kilometres) north of Cartmel, in his 1974 bookThe Outlying Fells of Lakeland.[10]

More recently Cartmel has emerged as a

Simon Rogan opened L'Enclume restaurant in the village. The restaurant quickly became one of the UK's most popular, and held top spot as the UK's best restaurant in The Good Food Guide from 2014-2017, returning to the top in 2020.[13] In 2022 it became the first restaurant in the UK outside London and the South-East to gain 3 Michelin stars.[14] Rogan makes use of the agricultural hinterland of Cartmel and most of the produce supplied to the restaurant is grown on the peninsula, including Rogan's nearby twelve-acre (5 hectare) farm.[15] Rogan's second restaurant in Cartmel, Rogan & Co, is also Michelin-starred,[16] and the village also hosts Unsworth's Yard, a collection of artisan-food retailers who use local produce.[16]

Transport

Cartmel is 2+1⁄4 miles (3.5 km) from the nearest town,

Cark and Cartmel railway station has a roughly hourly service between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster, with some services continuing north to Carlisle and others south to Manchester
.

Education

Cartmel Church of England Primary School is the village primary school. Cartmel Priory School takes pupils aged between 11 and 16 from around the Cartmel Peninsula.

Governance

Cartmel is part of the

Westmorland and Lonsdale parliamentary constituency, of which Tim Farron is the current Member of parliament representing the Liberal Democrats.[17]

For

Local Government purposes it is in the Grange and Cartmel Ward of Westmorland and Furness Council
.

The village also has its own

Parish council, Lower Allithwaite Parish Council.[18]

References

  1. ^ "THE 20 MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES IN THE UK AND IRELAND, 20 October 2020". 20 October 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  2. ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p. 89.
  3. ^ a b Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1914). "The parish of Cartmell". A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8. London: Victoria County History. pp. 254–265.
  4. ^ "British History Online: The Priory of Cartmel". Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Holker Estate". Holker Hall. Archived from the original on 31 January 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  6. ^ Grange over Sands - the Cartmel Peninsula Edge Guide; Accessed 17/03/08
  7. ^ National trust web page Archived May 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ "Cartmel Priory". Cartmel Priory. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Cartmel Racecourse". British Racecourses. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  10. ^ Wainwright, Alfred (1974). The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Westmorland Gazette.
  11. ^ MacEacheran, Mike. "The contentious origins of England's famous pudding". BBC.
  12. ^ Mayoh, Emma (7 October 2015). "Cartmel sticky toffee pudding celebrate 25 years". Lancashire Life. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  13. ^ Lake, Emma (10 September 2019). "Simon Rogan's L'Enclume returns to top spot in Good Food Guide 2020". The Caterer. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  14. ^ "How L'Enclume's Michelin win is taking Cumbria to the top of the foodie table". The Guardian. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  15. ^ Shinger, Tom. "Simon Rogan's Farm at L'Enclume - Great British Chefs". greatbritishchefs.com. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  16. ^ a b "Simon Rogan, L'enclume, sticky toffee pudding and Cartmel Cheeses - how a small Cumbria village became foodie heaven". North West Evening Mail. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  17. ^ "Tim Farron". theyworkforyou.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2013.
  18. ^ "Lower Allithwaite Parish".

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