Static Image Name: | Holker Hall 02.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Holker Hall |
Official Name: | Lower Holker |
Country: | England |
Region: | North West England |
Os Grid Reference: | SD3677 |
Coordinates: | 54.1743°N -2.9721°W |
Population: | 1,869 |
Population Ref: | (2011) |
Civil Parish: | Lower Holker |
Shire District: | South Lakeland |
Shire County: | Cumbria |
Constituency Westminster: | Westmorland and Lonsdale |
Post Town: | GRANGE OVER SANDS |
Postcode District: | LA11 |
Postcode Area: | LA |
Dial Code: | 01539 |
Lower Holker is a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria. It includes the villages of Cark and Flookburgh, the hamlets of Holker, Ravenstown and Sand Gate, and historic Holker Hall. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,808, increasing at the 2011 census to 1,869.
In chronostratigraphy, the British sub-stage of the Carboniferous period, the 'Holkerian' derives its name from Holker Hall.[1]