Nicholforest
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Nicholforest is a civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The parish lies immediately south of the border with Scotland, which follows the river called Liddel Water in this area. The parish is large and sparsely populated, containing extensive areas of woodland. Its settlements are generally small hamlets. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 347.
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- Population
- 372
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- St Nicholas Church, Nicholforest - geograph.org.uk - 320883.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01228
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- postal code
- CA6
- OS grid reference
- NY45426
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- Church of St Nicholas
- Nicholforest Hall
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Demographics
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Nicholforest is a civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The parish lies immediately south of the border with Scotland, which follows the river called Liddel Water in this area. The parish is large and sparsely populated, containing extensive areas of woodland. Its settlements are generally small hamlets. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 347.
==Geography== The parish covers an area that extends about east to west and north to south. The area was once an extensive forest between England and Scotland. In 1870–72 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described the landscape as: "The surface is hilly. The streams Kershope and Liddel here form several cascades." Much of the woodland in the parish was managed for commercial forestry by the Forestry Commission.
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