Blencathra
Blencathra, also known as Saddleback, is one of the most northerly of the Cumbrian Mountains, in the English Lake District. It has six separate fell tops, of which the highest is the Hallsfell Top at 2,848 feet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,848 feet
- Description: mountain in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Blencathara” and “Saddleback”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scales Tarn and Mungrisdale Common.
Mungrisdale Common
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mungrisdale Common, pronounced mun-grize-dl, with emphasis on grize, is a fell in the English Lake District. Although Alfred Wainwright listed it as one of the 214 featured hills in his influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells it was his least favourite.
Bannerdale Crags
Peak
Photo: Bobble Hat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bannerdale Crags is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands between Blencathra and Bowscale Fell in the Northern Fells.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Threlkeld and Hutton Moor End.
Threlkeld
Village
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Threlkeld is a village and civil parish in the north of the Lake District in Cumbria, England, to the east of Keswick. It is in the historic county of Cumberland.
Hutton Moor End
Locality
Hutton Moor End is a hamlet on the Hutton Moor Road in the north east of the Lake District in Cumbria, England. It lies within the civil parish of Mungrisdale and is known locally as 'Moor End' as it is at the end of the Hutton Moor on an old route-way between Penrith to Keswick.
Mungrisdale
Village
Photo: Karl and Ali, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mungrisdale is a small village and civil parish in the north east of the English Lake District in Cumbria. It is also the name of the valley in which the village sits.
Blencathra
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Threlkeld, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.63998° or 54° 38′ 24″ northLongitude
-3.04972° or 3° 2′ 59″ westElevation
2,848 feet (868 metres)Open location code
9C6RJXQ2+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 5649488237OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Blencathra” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Saddleback”
- Chinese: “布伦卡斯拉”
- Chinese: “布倫卡斯拉”
- Cornish: “Blencathra”
- Dutch: “Blencathra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بلينكاثرا”
- Irish: “Blencathra”
- Italian: “Blencathra”
- Ladin: “Blencathra”
- Malayalam: “ബ്ലെൻകാത്ര”
- Slovenian: “Blencathra”
- Slovenian: “Saddleback”
- Swedish: “Saddleback”
- Welsh: “Blencathra”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hallsfell Top and Brunt Knott.
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Highlights include Atkinson Pike and Gategill Fell Top.
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