Aughertree (/ˈæfərtriː/ AF-ər-tree) is a village in northern Cumbria, England. It is situated near to the villages of Caldbeck and Torpenhow, but closer to the main local centre Ireby and is in the parish of Ireby and Uldale.
There are at least three Iron Age[1][2][3][4][5] settlements on the nearby fell, a neolithic causeway[1][6] along with several burial mounds that have been extensively excavated in earlier centuries but without sufficient recording or controls.
It used to be a much larger village with several taverns or pubs but none now remain. Some sites of former houses and farms can be seen but these are long gone.
A historic funeral road to Uldale Old Church starts in the hamlet and follows a footpath and bridleway.
Governance edit
Aughertree is part of the parliamentary constituency of Workington. In the December 2019 general election, the Tory candidate for Workington, Mark Jenkinson, was elected the MP, overturning a 9.4 per cent Labour majority from the 2017 election to eject shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman by a margin of 4,136 votes.[7] Until the December 2019 general election The Labour Party has won the seat in the constituency in every general election since 1979.The Conservative Party has only been elected once in Workington since World War II, at the 1976 by-election.[8]
Before Brexit, its residents were covered by the North West England European Parliamentary Constituency.
For Local Government purposes it is in the Cumberland unitiary authority area.
References edit
- ^ a b "Aughertree Fell: Cumbria | Kate Lancelott Beddoes". academia.edu. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "Skiddaw Massif National Mapping Programme project | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "Aspects of Prehistoric Cumbria". cwherald.com. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "Pastscape - Detailed Result: MONUMENT NO. 9895". pastscape.org.uk. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "Uldale, Cumbria". thecumbriadirectory.com. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ Horne, P.; Oswald, A.; English Heritage; National Monuments Record (England) (2000). A Probable Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure on Green How, Cumbria. English Heritage. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "Workington parliamentary constituency – Election 2019".
- ^ "A vision of Britain website – general elections section". Retrieved 27 April 2012.
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