Wetheral
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Wetheral is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the historic county of Cumberland but now in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. At the 2001 census, the population of the Wetheral War
The Cross, Wetheral Village Green
Parish Church: Joseph Nollekens' life-size sculpture of 'Faith' in memory of Henry Howard's wife Maria (who died in childbirth).
Wetheral Priory Gatehouse
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Wetheral Priory Gatehouse is a 15th-century stone fortification in Wetheral, Cumbria. The priory was founded at the start of the 12th century and the gatehouse controlled the entrance to its outer cou
Wetheral
…attached to the rocks on the Great Corby side of the river where the ferry would tie up. The place-name 'Wetheral' is first attested in the Register of Wetheral Priory circa 1100 AD, where it appears as Wetherhala. The name means 'the haugh (area of flat land by a river) where wethers (castrated male sheep) were kept…
The exterior of the gatehouse
The gatehouse at the end of the 19th century