Holwick
Holwick is a hamlet and civil parish in Teesdale, County Durham, England. Located in the Pennine hills, the hamlet consists of a few houses spread along a road in the pattern of a linear settlement.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 75 residents
- Description: hamlet in County Durham, England, UK
- Also known as: “Holwick, County Durham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Low Force and High Force.
Low Force
Waterfall
Low Force is an 18-foot high set of falls on the River Tees, England, UK. Further upstream is the High Force waterfall. Low Force is also the site of the Wynch Bridge, completed in 1830.
High Force
Waterfall
Photo: StoatBringer, Public domain.
High Force is a waterfall on the River Tees, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale, England. The waterfall is within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the European Geopark. High Force is situated 2 miles northwest of Holwick.
Park End Wood
Forest
Park End Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Teesdale district of west County Durham, England. The site occupies a low hill of Whin Sill on the southern edge of the River Tees floodplain just over 2 km upstream from the village of Middleton-in-Teesdale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowlees and Newbiggin.
Bowlees
Hamlet
Bowlees is a small village in County Durham, England. It is situated near Newbiggin, on the other side of Teesdale from Holwick. The visitor centre in the village was formerly run by the Durham Wildlife Trust.
Newbiggin
Village
Newbiggin is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. At the 2011 census the parish had a population of 146. It is situated on the north side of Teesdale, opposite Holwick.
Dent Bank
Hamlet
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dent Bank is a hamlet in the civil parish of Middleton in Teesdale, in County Durham, England. It is situated on the north side of Teesdale between Middleton-in-Teesdale and Newbiggin. Dent Bank is situated 2 miles east of Holwick.
Holwick
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Holwick, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.63796° or 54° 38′ 17″ northLongitude
-2.14842° or 2° 8′ 54″ westPopulation
75Elevation
889 feet (271 metres)Open location code
9C6VJVQ2+5JOpenStreetMap ID
node 27593201OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2646688Wikidata ID
Q1879714
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Holwick” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Holwick”
- Chinese: “Holwick”
- Dutch: “Holwick”
- French: “Holwick”
- Irish: “Holwick”
- Italian: “Holwick”
- Ladin: “Holwick”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Holwick”
- Persian: “هولویک”
- Polish: “Holwick”
- Swedish: “Holwick”
- Welsh: “Holwick”
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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 “Holwick”. Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.