Kirkstone Pass
Kirkstone Pass is a mountain pass in the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. It is at an altitude of 1,489 feet. It is the District's highest pass traversed by road; the A592 between Ambleside in Rothay Valley and Patterdale in Ullswater Valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Gearing, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Red Screes and Middle Dodd.
Red Screes
Peak
Red Screes is a fell in the English Lake District, situated between the villages of Patterdale and Ambleside. It may be considered an outlier of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells, but is separated from its neighbours by low cols.
Middle Dodd
Peak
Photo: Shanesykes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Middle Dodd is a fell in the English Lake District, an outlier of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It stands above Kirkstone Pass on the road from Ullswater to Ambleside.
Stony Cove Pike
Peak
Photo: William Bartlett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stony Cove Pike is a fell in the Far Eastern part of the English Lake District. It stands on the other side of the Kirkstone Pass from Red Screes, and is on the end of a ridge coming down from High Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rydal and Ambleside.
Rydal
Village
Photo: Cmyk, Public domain.
Rydal is a village in Cumbria, England. It is a small cluster of houses, a hotel, and St Mary's Church, on the A591 road midway between Ambleside and Grasmere.
Ambleside
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ambleside is a town in Cumbria. It is located at the head of Windermere, England’s largest lake, within the Lake District National Park.
Hartsop
Hamlet
Photo: Ericoides, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hartsop is a small village in the English Lake District. It lies in the Patterdale valley, near Brothers Water, Hayeswater and Kirkstone Pass. It consists of 17th-century grey stone cottages, like so many of its neighbours.
Kirkstone Pass
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 1,493 feet
- Description: mountain pass
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.46606° or 54° 27′ 58″ northLongitude
-2.92483° or 2° 55′ 29″ westElevation
1,493 feet (455 metres)Open location code
9C6VF38G+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 965860060OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Kirkstone Pass” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kirkstone Pass”
- Chinese: “柯克斯顿山口”
- Dutch: “Kirkstone Pass”
- French: “Col de Kirkstone”
- French: “Kirkstone Pass”
- German: “Kirkstone Pass”
- Swedish: “Kirkstone Pass”
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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 “Kirkstone Pass”. Photo: David Gearing, CC BY-SA 2.0.