Yewbarrow
Yewbarrow is a fell, in the English Lake District, which lies immediately north of the head of Wast Water. It is 628 metres high and in shape resembles the upturned hull of a boat or a barrow.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Olaf’s Church, Wasdale and Ritson’s Force.
St Olaf’s Church, Wasdale
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Olaf's Church in Wasdale Head, Cumbria, is England's smallest parish church. The earliest record of a church on this site is from 1550, though it is likely that there was an earlier church on this site.
Ritson’s Force
Waterfall
Photo: Steve Bayley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ritson's Force is a set of waterfalls in the valley of Mosedale, in the English Lake District. It is also the river that leads past the Wasdale Head Inn and the Great Gable Brewing Company.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wasdale Head and Nether Wasdale.
Wasdale Head
Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wasdale Head is a scattered agricultural hamlet in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Wasdale Head claims to be home of the highest mountain, deepest lake, smallest church and biggest liar in England.
Nether Wasdale
Village
Photo: Peter Eckersley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nether Wasdale is a village in Cumbria, England, located in the valley and civil parish of Wasdale, near the River Irt and just over a mile to the west of the Wastwater lake.
Gatesgarth
Hamlet
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gatesgarth is a settlement in Lake District of England. It is situated to the east of the lake of Buttermere, on the B5289 road on its western approach to the Honister Pass.
Yewbarrow
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,064 feet
- Description: mountain in United Kingdom
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Wasdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.4649° or 54° 27′ 54″ northLongitude
-3.27682° or 3° 16′ 37″ westElevation
2,064 feet (629 metres)Open location code
9C6RFP7F+X7OpenStreetMap ID
node 29961854OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Yewbarrow” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yewbarrow”
- Dutch: “Yewbarrow”
- German: “Yewbarrow”
- Ladin: “Yewbarrow”
- Swedish: “Yewbarrow”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yewbarrow”. Photo: ramsd, CC BY 2.0.