Crooklands

Crooklands is a hamlet in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Kendal on the A65 road and the Lancaster Canal.

Historically part of Westmorland, it is in the parish of Preston Richard but adjacent to Preston Patrick to the south east, the boundary roughly following Peasey Beck.

[1][2] The adjacent showfield of the Westmorland County Agricultural Society is the venue of the annual Westmorland County Show (first held 1799, moved to this site late 20th century), Country Fest (since 2009) and various other events.

[5] Crooklands was previously the name of a ward which elected one councillor to South Lakeland district council.

In the 1870s Crooklands was described as "a hamlet in Preston-Richard township, Heversham parish".

Crooklands Bridge over the canal