St Bees
St Bees is a coastal village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England, on the Irish Sea. Within the parish is St Bees Head which is the only Heritage Coast between Wales and Scotland and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.Places of Interest
Highlights include St Bees railway station and St Bees Priory.
St Bees railway station
Railway station
St Bees railway station is a railway station serving the village of St Bees in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness.
St Bees Priory
Church
St Bees Priory is the parish church of St Bees, Cumbria, in England. There is evidence of a pre-Norman religious site, on which a Benedictine priory was founded by the first Norman Lord of Egremont William Meschin.
Saint Bees Head Light
Lighthouse
St Bees Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on St Bees Head near the village of St Bees in Cumbria, England. The cliff-top light is the highest in England at 102 m above sea level. Saint Bees Head Light is situated 2½ miles northwest of St Bees.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitehaven and Egremont.
Whitehaven
Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies 4 miles outside the Lake District National Park.Egremont
Town
Egremont is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is situated just outside the Lake District National Park, five miles south of Whitehaven and on the River Ehen. Egremont is situated 2½ miles east of St Bees.
Cleator Moor
Town
Cleator Moor is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The parish was historically called Cleator. During the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the new settlement of Cleator Moor was built on the moorland to the north of Cleator village, based around mining and the iron industry. Cleator Moor is situated 3½ miles northeast of St Bees.
St Bees
- Type: Village
- Also known as: “St. Bees”
- Category: locality
- Location: Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.4927° or 54° 29′ 34″ north
Longitude
-3.5908° or 3° 35′ 27″ west
Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)
Open location code
9C6RFCV5+3M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
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