Shap
Shap is a village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. The village is in the historic county of Westmorland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,260 residents
- Description: village in Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Shap Urban” and “Shap, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Michael and Wet Sleddale Reservoir.
Wet Sleddale Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: mauldy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wet Sleddale Reservoir is an artificial reservoir set amongst the Shap Fells 4 kilometres south of the village of Shap in Cumbria, England, and lies just within the boundary of the Lake District National Park. Wet Sleddale Reservoir is situated 2½ miles south of Shap.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keld and Hardendale.
Keld
Village
Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keld is a hamlet in the English county of Cumbria. It lies within the civil parish of Shap. On the banks of the River Lowther it is a mile southwest of Shap and falls within that village's civil parish, Shap Abbey is nearby.
Hardendale
Hamlet
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Hardendale is a hamlet in the parish of Shap Rural in Westmorland and Furness, in the county of Cumbria, England, near Shap and junction 39 of the M6 motorway. It is also near the hamlet of Oddendale.
Oddendale
Hamlet
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oddendale is a hamlet in Cumbria, England, near the large village of Shap. For transport there is the M6 motorway and the A6 road. Oddendale is situated 2 miles southeast of Shap.
Shap
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Shap, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.53002° or 54° 31′ 48″ northLongitude
-2.67708° or 2° 40′ 38″ westPopulation
1,260Elevation
856 feet (261 metres)Open location code
9C6VG8JF+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 29540908OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638135Wikidata ID
Q1023939
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Shap” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Shap”
- Bulgarian: “Шап”
- Cebuano: “Shap”
- Chinese: “Shap”
- Chinese: “沙普”
- Dutch: “Shap”
- French: “Shap”
- German: “Shap”
- Irish: “Shap”
- Italian: “Shap”
- Ladin: “Shap”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shap”
- Persian: “شپ”
- Polish: “Shap”
- Spanish: “Shap”
- Swedish: “Shap (parish i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Shap”
- Turkish: “Shap”
- Welsh: “Shap”
- “Shap”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shap Village Hall and Shap Library.
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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 “Shap”. Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.