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Isle of Man
Lezayre

Snaefell

Snaefell – is the highest mountain and the only summit above 2,000 feet on the , at 2,037 feet above sea level. The summit is crowned by a railway station, cafe, several communications masts and can be reached by narrow gauge railway.
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Photo: Frank Schuengel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Snaefell Summit railway station and Graham Memorial.

Railway station
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the upper terminus of the Snaefell Mountain Railway on the and is served by the tramway of the same name.

Hut
The is a stone shelter situated between the 30th Milestone and the 31st Milestone road-side markers on the Snaefell Mountain Course on the primary A18 Snaefell mountain road in the parish of Lonan in the .

Railway stop
Photo: Gregory J Kingsley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bungalow Station is the only intermediate station on the Snaefell Mountain Railway and is located where the main mountain road intersects the line. It is on the border of the parishes of and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Bungalow, Isle of Man and Hailwood’s Height.

Locality
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, one of a handful of better-known vantage points spread around the Snaefell Mountain Course, is situated adjacent to the 31st Milestone roadside marker on the road junction of the primary A18 Mountain Road, the A14 Sulby Glen Road and the road-tramway crossing for the Snaefell Mountain Railway in the parish of Lezayre in the .

Locality
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hailwood's Height, preceded by Hailwood's Rise, is situated between the 31st and 32nd Milestone road-side markers on the Snaefell Mountain Course used for the Isle of Man TT Races on the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road in the parishes of and Lonan in the .

Locality
, Isle of Man or is an area of Mountain Lands of heath moorland and coniferous woodland plantations situated in the Northern Upland Massif in the parish of in the .

Snaefell

Latitude
54.26324° or 54° 15′ 48″ north
Longitude
-4.46167° or 4° 27′ 42″ west
Elevation
620 metres (2,034 feet)
Open location code
9C6Q7G7Q+78
Open­Street­Map ID
node 283514313
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
3042178
Wiki­data ID
Q147557
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Welsh—“Snaefell” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Sniaul”
  • Catalan: “Snaefell”
  • Cebuano: “Snaefell (bukid sa Isle of Man)”
  • Cebuano: “Snaefell”
  • Chinese: “Sniaull”
  • Cornish: “Snaefell”
  • Czech: “nejvyšší hora Manu”
  • Czech: “Snaefell”
  • Dutch: “Snaefell”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سنايفيل”
  • Finnish: “Snaefell”
  • French: “Snaefell”
  • Galician: “Monte Snaefell”
  • German: “Snaefell”
  • Irish: “Sniaul”
  • Japanese: “スネーフェル”
  • Japanese: “スネーフェル山”
  • Ladin: “Snaefell”
  • Latvian: “Sneifels”
  • Lithuanian: “Sneifelis”
  • Macedonian: “Снејфел”
  • Manx: “Snaefell”
  • Manx: “Sniaul”
  • Manx: “Sniaull”
  • Manx: “y Slieau Mooar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Snaefell”
  • Norwegian: “Snaefell”
  • Norwegian: “Snøfjell”
  • Polish: “Snaefell”
  • Russian: “Снейфелл”
  • Russian: “Снэфелль”
  • Russian: “Снэфиелль”
  • Russian: “Снэфилль”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sniaul”
  • Slovenian: “Snaefell”
  • Spanish: “Monte Snaefell”
  • Swahili: “Snaefell”
  • Swedish: “Snaefell”
  • Ukrainian: “Снефелл”
  • Ukrainian: “Снефелль”
  • Welsh: “Snaefell”

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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 “Snaefell”. Photo: Frank Schuengel, CC BY-SA 4.0.