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Lower Holker
Lower
Holker
is a
civil parish
and
electoral ward
in
the South
Lakeland
district
of the
English county
of
Cumbria
. It includes the
villages
of
Cark
and
Flookburgh
, the
hamlets
of Holker,
Ravenstown
and Sand
Gate
, and
historic
Holker Hall
. The
parish
has a population of 1,808,
increasing
to 1,869 at the
2011 Census
In
chronostratigraphy
, the
British
sub-stage
of the
Carboniferous period
, the 'Holkerian'
derives
its name from Holker
Hall
.