--- title: "Longtown – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Longtown, United Kingdom: Longtown is a market town in Cumbria, but in the historic county of Cumberland, England, just south of the Scottish Border.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/longtown" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/longtown.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/An_Arthuret_Church_tower%27s_masons_mark%2C_Longtown%2C_Cumbria.jpg/1920px-An_Arthuret_Church_tower%27s_masons_mark%2C_Longtown%2C_Cumbria.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in Cumbria, England · United Kingdom # Longtown Longtown is a market town in Cumbria, but in the historic county of Cumberland, England, just south of the Scottish Border. ![Longtown](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/An_Arthuret_Church_tower%27s_masons_mark%2C_Longtown%2C_Cumbria.jpg/1920px-An_Arthuret_Church_tower%27s_masons_mark%2C_Longtown%2C_Cumbria.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Longtown · Rosser1954 The place Longtown is a market town in Cumbria, but in the historic county of Cumberland, England, just south of the Scottish Border. It has a sheep market which was at the centre of the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth crisis. Just south-west of Longtown is Arthuret Church, dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels. In 2021 it had a population of 2,175. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtown%2C_Cumbria), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Longtown 4 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. 1. Castra Exploratorum Castra Exploratorum was a Roman fort and associated substantial civil settlement now in the grounds of Netherby Hall, Cumbria. 3.5 km · Roman fort in Netherby, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castra_Exploratorum) 2. Liddel Strength Liddel Strength is an ancient monument near Carwinley, Cumbria, in northwest England. It consists of the earthwork remains of an Anglo-Norman border fortification destroyed by the Scots in 1346 and fragmentary remains of a pele tower subsequently built upon the site. 5.9 km · ancient monument near Carwinley, Cumbria in northwest England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liddel_Strength) 3. Coop House, Netherby Coop House, near Netherby in Cumbria, England, is a small building by the River Esk, erected about 1772 as part of a salmon fishery project, and restored in the 1990s by the Landmark Trust. It is a Grade II\* listed building; it is described in the listing as a folly tower. 2.9 km · folly tower, formerly keeper's house for the salmon coops for Netherby Hall, in Arthuret, Cumbria, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop_House,_Netherby) 4. Kirklinton Hall Kirklinton Hall is a country house ruin at Kirklinton in the parish of Hethersgill, Cumbria, England. Parts of the building originate from the 17th century with significant additions being made in the 19th century. 5.5 km · house in Hethersgill, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirklinton_Hall) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Longtown **Airports:** Newcastle (NCL), 82 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 108 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 116 km\ **Stations:** Floriston railway station, 5.2 km · Gretna (Border Union) railway station, 4.9 km · Gretna (Caledonian) railway station, 4.9 km · Scotch Dyke railway station, 3.7 km\ - Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Longtown 86 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/newcastle-upon-tyne-tyne-and-wear-to-longtown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Newcastle+upon+Tyne%2C+Tyne+and+Wear&to=Longtown) - Ingliston, Edinburgh → Longtown 107 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £14–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ingliston-edinburgh-to-longtown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ingliston%2C+Edinburgh&to=Longtown) - Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Longtown 118 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/prestwick-south-ayrshire-to-longtown) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Prestwick%2C+South+Ayrshire&to=Longtown) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Longtown) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Longtown 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 Longtown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in A75 runs from Stranraer (for the Belfast and Larne ferries) via Dumfries. - Get in Buses 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. From [Wikivoyage: Carlisle](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Carlisle), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 151 km 2. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 181 km 3. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 210 km 4. [Isle of Coll](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coll) GB 7 ways of moving, 16 sources 288 km 5. [The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/small-isles) GB 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 302 km If you know how people move in Longtown – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clongtown&title=Longtown&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flongtown), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Longtown - [Gretna Green](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gretna-green) village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK 6 km - [Westlinton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/westlinton) village and civil parish in Cumbria, England 4.4 km - [Arthuret](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/arthuret) civil parish in Cumbria, England 3.4 km - [Kirklinton Middle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kirklinton-middle) civil parish in Carlisle, Cumbria, England 5.5 km - [Kirkandrews](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kirkandrews) village and civil parish in Cumbria, England 1.9 km - [Kirklinton](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kirklinton) village in Cumbria, United Kingdom 5.3 km [The place page for Longtown](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/longtown) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/longtown, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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