Traditional county: Cumbria · Unitary authority: Westmorland and Furness · Region: North West
Explore Friars' Ground, Cumbria with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Friars' Ground map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | Friars' Ground |
| Traditional County | Cumbria |
| Unitary Authority | Westmorland and Furness |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 54.232411 |
| Longitude | -3.169908 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Friars' Ground, a quiet exhalation of settlement, breathes the air of Cumbria’s western reaches. It lies 5.6 km south-south-east of Broughton in Furness (from Broughton in Furness: bearing 152°T, OS grid SD 238 824), and is situated east of Kirkby-in-Furness village. The land here slopes gently towards the Duddon Estuary, its fields often catching the low, golden light that spills across the sands in the late afternoon. Ancient hedgerows, thick with hawthorn and wild rose, trace the boundaries of pastures where sheep graze, their fleece catching the sea-salt tang that drifts inland. The very soil of Friars' Ground seems to hold a memory of the old monastic granges that once dotted this landscape, a subtle echo in the quietude.
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Explore Friars' Ground, Cumbria, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 54.232411, -3.169908. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |