Aikhead

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Aikhead
Cumberland
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Aikhead
Location
Grid reference: NY236492
Location: 54°49’57"N, 3°11’19"W
Data
Post town: Wigton
Postcode: CA7
Dialling code: 016973
Local Government
Council: Cumberland
Parliamentary
constituency:
Workington

Aikhead is a little village in Cumberland, on the coastal plain a mile and a half north-west of Wigton. This is broad pastureland, the broad skies tamed though but the pylons carrying past the village the main power lines out of the Sellafield nuclear power station.

The village was the residence of the leading geologist John Rooke.[1]

References

  1. 'Woodside in Bulmer's History & Directory Of Cumberland 1901