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CARK
Cark airfield
VFR
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Name
Cark airfield
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ICAO
CARK
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- Region
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Timezone
12:00 pm (GMT)
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Municipality
Cark
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Coordinates
54° 9′ 49″ N 2° 57′ 44″ W
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Elevation
20 ft (6 m MSL)
About Cark airfield
Cark (sometimes Cark in Cartmel) is a village in Cumbria, England. It lies on the B5278 road to Haverthwaite (and to the A590 road) and is ½ mile north of Flookburgh, 2 miles southwest of Cartmel and 3 miles west of Grange-over-Sands.
It is in the
historic county of Lancashire. The village is served by the Cark and Cartmel railway station on the Furness Line between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster.
The village used to have a water-powered cotton mill between 1785 and c1815.
Cark is ½ mile south of Holker Hall owned by Lord and Lady Cavendish.
Royal Air Force Station Cark was constructed near Flookburgh in late 1940.
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