Hesket
Hesket is a large civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness unitary district of Cumbria, England, on the main A6 between Carlisle and Penrith. Hesket is part of the historic royal hunting ground of Inglewood Forest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 2,800 residents
- Description: civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Hesket (civil parish), Cumbria” and “Hesket, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include All Saints Church and Salutation Inn.
Voreda Roman Fort
Archaeological site
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Voreda Roman Fort is an archaeological site, which is situated 2½ miles southeast of Hesket.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Calthwaite and Southwaite.
Calthwaite
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Calthwaite is a small village in rural Cumbria, England, situated between the small market town of Penrith and the larger city of Carlisle. It is within of the civil parish of Hesket and the unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness, but historically part of the traditional county of Cumberland.
Southwaite
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southwaite is a small village in the parish of Hesket, in Westmorland and Furness, in the English county of Cumbria. Southwaite is situated 2½ miles northwest of Hesket.
High Hesket
Village
Photo: Trevor Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
High Hesket is a village near the A6 road, in the parish of Hesket, in the Westmorland and Furness district, traditionally in the historic county of Cumberland but now in the ceremonial county of Cumbria. The village was on the A6 road until it was by-passed.
Hesket
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Hesket” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “হেস্কেট”
- Cebuano: “Hesket (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Hesket”
- Chinese: “Hesket”
- Chinese: “赫斯克特”
- Dutch: “Hesket”
- French: “Hesket”
- German: “Hesket”
- Gujarati: “હેસકેટ”
- Irish: “Hesket”
- Japanese: “ヘスケット”
- Kannada: “ಹೆಸ್ಕೆಟ್”
- Korean: “헤스켓”
- Lithuanian: “Hesketas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hesket”
- Polish: “Hesket”
- Portuguese: “Hesket”
- Russian: “Хескет”
- Spanish: “Hesket”
- Swedish: “Hesket”
- Tamil: “ஹெஸ்கெட்”
- Telugu: “హేస్కేట్”
- Turkish: “Hesket, Cumbria”
- Urdu: “ہیسکیت”
- Welsh: “Hesket, Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Hesket”
- “Hesket”
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Highlights include Thiefside Hill and Blaze Fell.
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