Blencarn is a small village located in Westmorland and Furness in Cumbria, England.

An old Roman road known as Maiden Way once ran nearby and 1.27 km northeast near the farm of Ranbeck lies various ancient "cultivation terraces" known as "The Hanging Walls of Mark Antony".

The Marham aircraft 'ZA593'[2] had pilot Flt Lt Colin Douglas Oliver, aged 30, from Swaffham originally from Bristol, and navigator Flt Lt Anthony Cook, aged 29, from Kings Lynn, and married with two children.

The Cottesmore aircraft 'ZA329'[3] had pilot Flt Lt John Watts, aged 32, from Castle Bytham in Lincolnshire, but originally from Surrey, an instructor who was married , with a German trainee navigator Lt Ulrich Sayer, aged 23.

It is the home of the notable painter and printmaker Alan Stones.