Silver How
Silver How is a fell in the English Lake District, standing over the village of Grasmere. How, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, is a common local term for a hill or mound.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Allan Bank and Dove Cottage.
Allan Bank
Manor estate
Allan Bank is a grade II listed two-storey villa standing on high ground slightly to the west of Grasmere village in the heart of the Lake District. It is best known for being from 1808 to 1811 the home of William Wordsworth, but it was also occupied…
Dove Cottage
Museum
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Dove Cottage is a house on the edge of Grasmere in the Lake District of England. It is best known as the home of the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth from December 1799 to May 1808, where they spent over eight years of "plain living, but high thinking".
St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere
Church
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St Oswald's Church is an active Anglican parish church in the village of Grasmere, in the Lake District, Cumbria, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building and is notable for associations with the poet William Wordsworth and his family, and for its annual ceremony of rushbearing.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kelbarrow and Chapel Stile.
Kelbarrow
Locality
Photo: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kelbarrow is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It is located in close proximity to Grasmere, with views of Grasmere Lake.
Chapel Stile
Village
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chapel Stile is a village in Cumbria, England, located approximately 5 miles northwest of Ambleside, within the Langdale valley. It contains a school, Holy Trinity church, the Co-op and the Wainwrights' Inn, and a quarry is located in the vicinity.
Grasmere
Photo: alancleaver, CC BY 2.0.
Grasmere is a lakeside village in the Lake District National Park, best known as the home to poet William Wordsworth.
Silver How
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,293 feet
- Description: mountain in United Kingdom
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.45068° or 54° 27′ 2″ northLongitude
-3.04289° or 3° 2′ 34″ westElevation
1,293 feet (394 metres)Open location code
9C6RFX24+7ROpenStreetMap ID
node 25255570OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Silver How” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Silver How”
- Dutch: “Silver How”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سيلڤير هو”
- French: “Silver How”
- Italian: “Silver How”
- Ladin: “Silver How”
- Swedish: “Silver How”
- Venetian: “Silver How”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as The Wyke and Sheep Crag.
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Highlights include Brigstone Moss and Covel Wood.
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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 “Silver How”. Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.