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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Riddings like this:
RIDDINGS JUNCTION, a railway station on the N border of Cumberland; on the North British railway, at the junction of the branch to Langholm, adjacent to the river Liddell, at the boundary with Scotland, 14½ miles N by E of Carlisle.
Riddings is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Riddings itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Riddings in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25936
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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