23-483: Ninekirks is the local name for St Ninian's church, Brougham , Cumbria. Dedicated to Saint Ninian , it was formerly the Anglican parish church for Brougham, a parish which is now combined with Clifton , a neighbouring village. It is preserved as a redundant church for its architectural interest, and presents a mainly seventeenth-century appearance. It has been known as Ninekirks since at least 1583. The building
46-666: A £500 million spend to complete dualling the Trans-Pennine section, together with improvements at the M6 and A1(M) interchanges. In March 2024, Transport Secretary Mark Harper approved a £1.3 billion scheme to dual the A66 in its entirety between Scotch Corner and Penrith. Work would begin on the scheme in the latter half of 2024. Additionally, a plan to create a second crossing of the River Tees near Middlesbrough for traffic on
69-496: Is Whinfell Forest the site of a Red squirrel reserve, a Center Parcs holiday village, and the site of RAF Hornby Hall World War II aerodrome . [REDACTED] Media related to Brougham, Cumbria at Wikimedia Commons This Cumbria location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . A66 road (England) The A66 is a major road in Northern England , which in part follows
92-532: Is Grade I listed . It is one of very few churches to be built during the Commonwealth of England and has been altered very little. (Three other churches of this age are: Church of the Holy Trinity, Berwick-on-Tweed ; St Matthias Old Church , London Borough of Tower Hamlets ; and Staunton Harold, Leicestershire .) The Romans built a fort at Brougham called Brocavum , situated near the confluence of
115-501: Is beside the A66 near the castle. The parish has two Anglican churches: Brougham "village" itself is no more than a scattering of farms and modern housing near the hall and is, along with neighbouring Eamont Bridge , often classed as an outlying suburb of Penrith. There are some more cottages next to the castle, which is partially built on the site of the Roman fort. Within the parish
138-566: Is now the A66 west of Penrith was originally A594 – only a small stub of this road numbering remains, from Maryport to Cockermouth . The middle 49.5 miles (79.7 km) section of the A66 between Scotch Corner on the A1(M) and Penrith on the M6 forms one of the key trans-Pennines trunk routes and has one of the worst road-safety records in the UK. Various bypasses and upgrades have been constructed since
161-553: The Churches Conservation Trust . The church contains three hatchments : The church and its area have been the subject of at least four archaeological investigations: Brougham, Cumbria Brougham / ˈ b r uː m / is a small village (or more properly a collection of hamlets) and civil parish on the outskirts of Penrith in the Eden District of Cumbria , England. According to
184-486: The 2001 census the parish had a population of 279, falling marginally to 277 at the 2011 Census. Within the parish are the remains of Brocavum Roman fort. The ruins of the medieval Brougham Castle , once home to Lady Anne Clifford , are next to the fort. The mainly 19th century Brougham Hall , the former seat of the Lords Brougham and Vaux is nearby. The 17th-century Countess Pillar , set up by Lady Anne,
207-560: The A66 as high priorities to receive funding. This means that there is currently no likelihood of any additional major schemes on this route being funded within the next ten-year period. However the Regional Funding Allocation process will be reviewed in due course and this will give an opportunity for the Regions to revise their priorities." In September 2015, the government said that £500,000 would be invested into
230-628: The A66(M) shortly before meeting junction 57 of the A1(M) . It shares the A1(M) route south to Scotch Corner , from where it continues west across the Pennines , past Brough , Appleby , Kirkby Thore , Temple Sowerby and Penrith until it reaches Junction 40 of the M6 motorway at Skirsgill Interchange, where traffic going towards Western Scotland turns onto the northbound M6. The A66 continues past Blencathra to Keswick and Cockermouth and on through
253-603: The River Eamont and the River Eden . The Ninekirks site has been continuously occupied since at least Roman times. Roman occupation of the site is demonstrated by the Ninekirks Hoard of barbarous radiate coins. As a Christian site, the area was associated with St.Ninian from a very early date but "not everyone is convinced entirely by the arguments of Canon Bouch and others for Ninian". There are caves nearby on
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#1732787454085276-470: The congested A19 road would see the widening of the A66 between Teesside Park and the Tees Viaduct interchange. The section of road between Scotch Corner and Penrith accounted for 70 deaths over ten years up until 2002, which was above the national average for single lane carriageways. Whilst the number of accidents was in line with the national average, the number of serious injuries and deaths
299-855: The course of the Roman road from Scotch Corner to Penrith . It runs from east of Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire to Workington in Cumbria . The road has been progressively improved with dual carriageway sections, but with stretches of single carriageway road. The road is set to be completely dualled between Scotch Corner and Penrith, with a £1.3 billion scheme being announced in March 2024. From its eastern terminus between Redcar and Middlesbrough it runs past Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington mainly as two-lane dual-carriageway and single carriageway past Darlington, becoming motorway standard as
322-533: The early 1970s, giving the current mix of single and dual-carriageway sections. In 2002, after many years of local campaigning, the Transport Minister, John Spellar , gave support for the upgrading of the remaining single-carriageway sections by the Highways Agency . The first three projects began construction in early 2006 and opened in 2007 and 2008. The whole route between the A1(M) and M6
345-481: The north bank of the Eamont at a site called Isis Parlis and possible evidence of occupation of these is used to support arguments in favour of early hermit use. The centre of population moved near Brougham Hall sometime between 1230 and 1284. The Hall had a chapel from the 14th century, and the church fell into disuse. In 1659 the church was reconstructed by Lady Anne Clifford , the then owner of Brougham Castle,
368-481: The northern reaches of the Lake District before arriving at the coastal town of Workington . There is a short stretch of dual carriageway along the northern part of Bassenthwaite Lake between Keswick and Cockermouth. Whilst the eastbound section follows the straight line of the disused Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway , the westbound section has numerous bends with climbs and dips. The westbound section
391-525: The original route between Penrith and Scotch Corner. The historic route between Scotch Corner and Hull follows what is now today's A1 , A168 , B6265 , A59 and A1079 . It is anomalously numbered since west of Penrith it trespasses into numbering zone 5; this is because it originally terminated at the A6 in Penrith but was extended further west in order to create one continuous east–west route. Most of what
414-573: The repair work, the church was poorly maintained when George Shaw visited in 1847. The church had a brief golden age in the early 1950s when the Rector was Canon Bouch. His publications in the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (in 1947, 1950 and 1955 (twice)) demonstrate his interest. It was made redundant in 1977 and is now in the care of
437-584: The study of the two Trans-Pennine routes of the A66 and the A69 . The proposal would be for one or even both roads to be dualled wholly between the A1/A1(M) and the M6. The following year the government announced that the A66 would be dualled, but not the A69. In March 2019, project director Matt Townsend from Highways England announced plans for a public consultation from May 2019, in which it would present its plans for
460-545: The work being completed the following year. Ninekirks tended to be used when the chapel at Brougham Hall was unavailable. For example, from 1764 until the 1840s Ninekirks was used for weddings because Brougham Chapel was in need of repair work. Ninekirks was itself repaired in the 1840s. The porch was added in 1841 and tombs within the church were excavated in 1846 when the church was being repaired. According to Brougham (1847) these included those of Udard (or Odard) de Broham (died c.1185) and Gilbert de Broham (died c.1230). Despite
483-552: Was closed due to flood damage in December 2015; when it re-opened in May 2016, the road had been permanently reduced to a single lane. This section has a 50-mile-per-hour (80 km/h) limit monitored by average speed cameras . When road numbers were first designated in the 1920s, the A66 was assigned to the route between Penrith and Hull via Scotch Corner and York , mainly along former Roman roads . Today's route largely follows
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#1732787454085506-478: Was due to be dualled by 2011, by which time the upgrade of the A1 to motorway status at Scotch Corner was planned to be complete. After the construction of several sections commenced, it was announced that those schemes currently in the planning phase would not go ahead until 2016 at the earliest. The Highways Agency website states "Other than those already committed, the Regions did not identify any other major schemes for
529-464: Was twice the national average; this high attrition rate was the reason for the go-ahead for the new dualled sections on the grounds of safety. Snow gates were installed on the road between Bowes and Brough . This section is the moorland route over Stainmore summit which reaches a height of 1,450 feet (440 m) is prone to heavy snow in the winter. Both sets of gates have turnaround facilities to allow all traffic to change direction. The A66(M)
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