Newbiggin is a small linear village in Cumbria

Cumbria

Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...

, North-western England

England

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. It is in the Dacre

Dacre, Cumbria

Dacre is a small village and civil parish in the Lake District National Park in the Eden District of Cumbria, England, and was historically in Cumberland...

 civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 about three miles (5 km) west of Penrith

Penrith, Cumbria

Penrith was an urban district between 1894 and 1974, when it was merged into Eden District.The authority's area was coterminous with the civil parish of Penrith although when the council was abolished Penrith became an unparished area....

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It is usually referred to and is addressed as Newbiggin, Stainton so as to differentiate it from the other Newbiggins in Cumbria, especially the one near Temple Sowerby

Newbiggin, Temple Sowerby

Newbiggin is a village and civil parish near the larger village of Temple Sowerby, in the Eden District of the English county of Cumbria. It has a population of 96....

 whose post town

Post town

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 is also Penrith.

The village consists of a quarter of a mile long line of houses on either side of the road that connects Stainton

Stainton, Eden

Stainton is a village in the parish of Dacre, in the Eden District, in the English county of Cumbria. It is a few miles away from the market town of Penrith. It is in the parish of Dacre, although it is bigger than Dacre. It also has a place of worship and a primary school...

 and the A66

A66 road

The A66 is a major road in northern England which in part follows the course of the Roman road from Scotch Corner to Penrith. It runs from east of Middlesbrough in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire to Workington in Cumbria...

 to the B5288 at Clickham.

Behind the village street is the Flusco Quarry Landfill

Landfill

A landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...

 site which serves as a refuse site for a large part of Eden District

Eden, Cumbria

Eden is a local government district in Cumbria, England. Its council is based in Penrith. It is named after the River Eden which flows north through the district toward Carlisle....

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At the northern end of the village is the Hanson plc

Hanson plc

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 Blencowe Limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

 Quarry

Quarry

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 and Blockworks. This used to belong to the same company who opened the brick and cement works at Edenhall on the other side of Penrith.

Through the quarry site runs the course of the former Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway

The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway was incorporated by Act of Parliament on 1 August 1861, for a line connecting the town of Cockermouth with the London and North Western Railway West Coast Main Line at Penrith. Arrangements for the use of the stations at either end The Cockermouth,...

 which had a station there called Blencow or Blencowe, not Newbiggin (Great and Little Blencow

Blencow

Blencow or Blencowe is a small village near Penrith, Cumbria. It is divided by the River Petteril into Great Blencow to the south and Little Blencow to the north...

are situated a few miles to the north).

There was until recently a pub, the Joiners Arms, at the southern or Stainton end of the village.