Fingland


Fingland is a hamlet in the Allerdale district, in the county of Cumbria. Fingland is located on the B5307 road in between the villages of Kirkbride and Kirkbampton. There is a farm called Fingland Rigg nearby, which gives its name to Finglandrigg Woods National Nature Reserve.
It was called Thingland in the Middle Ages meaning "place of the a Scandinavian ting, assembly". There is a similar place-name in Normandy near Jobourg : le Tingland.