Grayrigg
Grayrigg is a small village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 223, increasing at the 2011 census to 242.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 214 residents
- Description: a village located in South Lakeland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Grayrigg, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Docker Viaduct and Lambrigg Fell.
Lambrigg Fell
Peak
Photo: Ian Brereton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lambrigg Fell is a hill, the highest point of the area of high ground between Kendal and the M6, in south-eastern Cumbria, England. It lies just outside the area normally defined as the Lake District, and the hill is not in the same mould as the nearby Lakeland Fells, being a sprawling, grassy moorland. Lambrigg Fell is situated 2 miles south of Grayrigg.
Whinfell Beacon
Peak
Photo: T Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whinfell Beacon is a hill of 472 metres in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, to the east of the Lake District. It is in the far east of the Lake District National Park since the national park's expansion in 2019. Whinfell Beacon is situated 2 miles north of Grayrigg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beck Foot and Selside.
Beck Foot
Hamlet
Beck Foot is a hamlet in Cumbria, England, situated on the B6257 road south of Lowgill, the West Coast Main Line and M6 motorway. The disused Lowgill Viaduct is close by. Beck Foot is situated 2½ miles east of Grayrigg.
Selside
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Selside is a small village in rural Cumbria, England, about 6 miles north of Kendal, close to the A6 road. It is now in the civil parish of Selside and Fawcett Forest, though it was formerly in the parish of Kendal. Selside is situated 3 miles west of Grayrigg.
Skelsmergh
Hamlet
Photo: Ron Shirt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skelsmergh is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg, in Westmorland and Furness in rural Cumbria, England, about 4 miles north of Kendal, on the A6 road. Skelsmergh is situated 3½ miles west of Grayrigg.
Grayrigg
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Grayrigg, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.36821° or 54° 22′ 6″ northLongitude
-2.64985° or 2° 38′ 60″ westPopulation
214Elevation
591 feet (180 metres)Open location code
9C6V9992+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 29540910OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648184Wikidata ID
Q919231
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Grayrigg” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Grayrigg”
- Chinese: “Grayrigg”
- Chinese: “格雷里格”
- Dutch: “Grayrigg”
- French: “Grayrigg”
- Irish: “Grayrigg”
- Italian: “Grayrigg”
- Japanese: “グレイリッグ”
- Ladin: “Grayrigg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Grayrigg”
- Persian: “گریریگ”
- Polish: “Grayrigg”
- Slovenian: “Grayrigg”
- Swedish: “Grayrigg”
- Turkish: “Grayrigg”
- Welsh: “Grayrigg”
- “Grayrigg”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St John’s Church and Grayrigg CofE School.
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