Great Orton
Great Orton is a village in the civil parish of Orton, in the Cumberland district of the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England.
Great Orton is a village in the civil parish of Orton, in the Cumberland district of the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 453. Historically, the village is part of Cumberland. From 1974 to 2023 it was in Carlisle district.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Orton
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Thurstonfield Lough
Thurstonfield Lough is an open water lough near Carlisle, Cumbria, and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
2.3 km · lake in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Orton Moss
Orton Moss is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located west of the city of Carlisle in northwest England. Cumbria Wildlife Trust maintains it as a nature reserve.
1.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Peter's Church, Kirkbampton
St. Peter's Church is in the village of Kirkbampton, Cumbria, England.
3.3 km · Grade I listed church in Kirkbampton, Cumberland, Cumbria , England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Orton
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 88 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 119 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 121 km
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Great Orton92 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–13
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Great Orton121 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £15–20
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Great Orton120 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Great Orton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Great Orton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA75 runs from Stranraer (for the Belfast and Larne ferries) via Dumfries.
- Get inBuses no longer run along the Solway coast from Stranraer ferry port, you have to double back via Glasgow, Borders Bus X95 runs from Edinburgh along A7 via Galashiels, Selkirk, Hawick and Longtown.
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If you know how people move in Great Orton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Great Orton
- Kirkbamptonvillage and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK3.2 km
- Ortoncivil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK1 km
- Moorhousevillage in Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, Cumbria, England, UK2.6 km
- Thornbyvillage in Cumbria, United Kingdom3.8 km
- Wiggonbyhamlet in Cumbria, United Kingdom3.9 km
- Orton RiggHamlet in Cumbria, England1.8 km