RAF Silloth - Izeria

Royal Air Force Silloth, or more simply RAF Silloth, is a former Royal Air Force station one mile (1.6 km) north-east of Silloth, Cumbria, England, and 6.7 miles (10.8 km) south-west of Kirkbride, Cumbria. The station was used by RAF Coastal Command. The airfield is also known as Silloth Airfield/Aerodrome.

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Causewayhead

Causewayhead is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme Low in Cumbria, England, about 1 mile (2 km) south-east of Silloth. The B5302 road runs through the hamlet on its way to Abbeytown and Wigton.

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Causewayhead railway station

Causewayhead or, originally, Causey Head, was an early, short lived railway station near Causewayhead, Cumbria on the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company's branch from Carlisle to Silloth The station served the small hamlet of Causewayhead and its rural surrounds. Its timetable entries show trains calling on Saturdays Only. It only appeared in public timetables from November 1856 to April 1859. The 18 September 1856 entry in a contemporary journal states that "[locomotives]...generally call at Causeway Head to quench the thirst of the Steam Horse. They pump the water out of the beck." By 1866 no trace of a station could be seen on OS maps, though a building – almost certainly the crossing keeper's cottage - is clear. It is possible that this was a "use it or lose it" stopping place where no platforms were built. The level crossing required the services of a crossing keeper until the line closed in 1964.

Silloth

Silloth, or Silloth-on-Solway, is a port town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town stands on the coast of the Solway Firth, 18 miles (29 km) west of Carlisle. It was developed from the 1850s onwards around a new harbour, and also became a small seaside resort. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 2,749.

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Solway Community School

Solway Community School is a mixed secondary school located in Silloth in the English county of Cumbria. It is a comprehensive community school administered by Cumberland Council. Solway Community School offers GCSEs and vocational courses as programmes of study for pupils. The school previously held specialist status as a Technology College, and was called Solway Community Technology College during this period.