High Street
High Street is a fell in the English Lake District. At 828 metres, its summit is the highest point in the far eastern part of the national park. The fell is named after the Roman road that ran over the summit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mardale Ill Bell and Blea Water.
Mardale Ill Bell
Peak
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Mardale Ill Bell is a fell in the English Lake District, rising to the south west of Haweswater Reservoir. It stands on the watershed between Mardale and Kentmere and is the highpoint of the south-eastern ridge of High Street, midway on its course to Harter Fell.
Blea Water
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Blea Water is a tarn or corrie lake which occupies a glacially excavated hollow immediately to the east of High Street in the Lake District, England. At just over 200 feet deep, it is the deepest tarn in the Lake District.
Thornthwaite Crag
Peak
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Thornthwaite Crag is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the west of Haweswater Reservoir. It is a focal point of the Far Eastern Fells, standing at the head of several valleys.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mardale and Hartsop.
Mardale
Locality
Mardale is a glacial valley in the Lake District, in northern England. The valley used to have a hamlet at its head, called Mardale Green, but this village was submerged in the late 1930s when the water level of the valley's lake, Haweswater, was raised to form Haweswater Reservoir by Manchester Corporation. Mardale is situated 2 miles east of High Street.
Hartsop
Hamlet
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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. Hartsop is situated 2½ miles northwest of High Street.
Sadgill
Village
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Sadgill is a hamlet in Longsleddale, Cumbria, England. It is a divided settlement, also containing Low Sadgill. Sadgill is situated 4 miles southeast of High Street.
High Street
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 2,717 feet
- Description: fell in the English Lake District
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Shap Rural, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“High Street” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “High Street”
- Dutch: “High Street”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل هيج ستريت”
- German: “High Street (Lake District)”
- German: “High Street”
- Italian: “High Street (Distretto dei Laghi)”
- Italian: “High Street”
- Ladin: “High Street”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “High Street i Lake District”
- Swedish: “High Street”
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Highlights include Rough Crag (Riggindale) and Gray Crag.
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