Goodyhills

Goodyhills
Goodyhills, looking toward Holme St. Cuthbert.
Goodyhills  Goodyhills shown within Cumbria
Civil parish	Holme St. Cuthbert
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Maryport
Postcode district	CA
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Workington
List of places UK England Cumbria

Coordinates: 54°48′32″N 3°23′21″W / 54.8088806°N 3.3892765°W / 54.8088806; -3.3892765

Goodyhills is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme St Cuthbert, in northern Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located 1.5 miles east of the village of Mawbray, and 23 miles west of the city of Carlisle.

A quarter of a mile to the north-west is the parish seat of Holme St Cuthbert, where the local primary school and parish church are located,^[1][2] and half a mile to the south-east is the small hamlet of Jericho. At nearby Newtown, there is a farm park and tea room called the Gincase.^[3] Goodyhills has no nearby public transport links; the closest railway station is at Aspatria,^[4] and the closest stop on a regular bus service is on the B5300 coast road at Mawbray.

William Wilson, noted English academic, was born in Goodyhills in 1875, and attended nearby Holme St Cuthbert primary school. He attained his PhD at Leipzig University in Germany in 1902, and went on to become a lecturer at King's College, London. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1923, and ended his career at Bedford College, London in 1944.^[5]

Etymology

The name "Goodyhills" comes from Old English, and means "godlike (or sacred) hills". It has been spelled in several different ways in the past, including "Guddyhills", "Goddy-hills", "Gowdyhowse", and "Goodlike-hills".^[6]

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