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  • Local weather from the BBC Local weather from the BBC Feb 25 2012
  • Lancaster City Council Planning Policy – Consultation Reports and Annual Monitoring Report now available Feb 15 2012
  • BBC News – Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars BBC News – Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars Nov 11 2011
  • Village Craft and Produce Market Village Craft and Produce Market Aug 12 2011

  • Local weather from the BBC

    Local weather from the BBC

  • Lancaster City Council Planning Policy – Consultation Reports and Annual Monitoring Report now available

    Dear Consultee, Happy 2012 to Everyone! 2012 will be an important year in the preparation of the local planning framework for Lancaster District, the Council will be continuing with their preparation of a Development Management and Land Allocations DPD (see below) and will be preparing a series of supporting documents, such as an Meeting Housing [...]

  • BBC News – Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars

    The mass slaughter of 1914-18 robbed the UK of a million lives, leaving no part of the country untouched. But there was a tiny handful of settlements where all those who served returned home. Read the full article on the BBC News website here.

    BBC News – Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars

  • Village Craft and Produce Market

    Don’t forget the Village Craft and Produce market on 2nd Sunday of every month – 10-2pm in the Village Hall. Contact Yvonne Beal 736578 for more details…

    Village Craft and Produce Market

Welcome

Much of Cumbria and Northern Lancashire was settled by Viking invaders and many place names like that of this village are derived from Scandinavian words. Thus a “Kellet” is a slope with a spring.

In the 1850s and 1860s Nether Kellet had a bad reputation and was notorious for cock fighting, drinking and ruffianism and there was no school or place of worship – but all this has changed…

Browse through these pages to see what life is like now in 21st Century Nether Kellet.

As you may have seen in recent editions of the “Round and About” magazine we’re looking for local people to get involved in the creation and maintenance of the content.

The site has been up and running for some time now and we’re keen to get some more of the local groups and associations involved to help make the site a useful resource to supplement the great work already undertaken by “Round and About”
magazine.

If you represent one of these groups or you think there’s a topic that readers of the website may be interested in, please get in touch via info@netherkellet.com.

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