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Penrith
Town in Cumbria, England

Penrith

Penrith is a market town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area of Cumbria, England.

It is less than 3 miles (5 km) outside the Lake District National Park and about 17 miles (27 km) south of Carlisle. It is between the Rivers Petteril and Eamont and just north of the River Lowther. It was historically part of Cumberland. The parish had a population of 16,987 at the 2021 census.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Michael D Beckwith (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.