- Stanwix
Stanwix is a district of
Carlisle inNorth West England . It is located on the north side of River Eden, across from Carlisle city centre. Although long counted as a suburb it did not officially become part of the city until 1912 when part of thecivil parish of Stanwix became part of the parish, city andmunicipal borough of Carlisle. The remaining part of the parish later became known asStanwix Rural .Location
The former village of Stanwix was centered around its church at the top of a steep bank rising from the Eden close to the junction of the main road north (now the A7) with the road to the east (now the B6264). In the mid nineteenth century the district grew with many large houses built for Carlisle's expanding middle classes. Today Stanwix includes the areas of Edentown, Whiteclosegate, St Anne's Hill and Belah and may be said to include Moorville, Lowry Hill and Kingstown but these districts are usually thought to be separate and were formerly part of
Kingmoor parish and added to the city in the 1950s.Notable buildings
Near the church today is a small parade of shops and other businesses. A
Morrisons supermarket is located in the area as well. A little further north at Kingstown is a largeAsda superstore. TheUniversity of Cumbria has a campus on Brampton Road (formerly the main campus of theCumbria Institute of the Arts ). There is also aRoman Catholic private school calledAugustinian Friars Saint Monicas located at St. Anne's Hill. The course ofHadrians Wall runs through the suburb and the area around the church is built on the site of the Roman Fort ofPetriana .A single Bridge, Eden Bridge, crosses River Eden to connect Stanwix and other northern reaches of the district to Carlisle city centre. Numerous households in low lying areas in Stanwix were badly affected by the flooding of the River Eden during the Carlisle Floods of January 2005.
The main road running northwards through Stanwix is Scotland Road and has the dubious distinction of carrying the same daily volume of traffic as the nearby M6 motorway.
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