Shap Rural
Shap Rural is a very large, but sparsely populated, civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria in England, covering part of the Lake District National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 111 residents
- Description: civil parish in England
- Also known as: “Shap Rural (civil parish), Cumbria” and “Shap Rural, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Seat Robert and Howes.
Seat Robert
Peak
Photo: Ron Shirt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Seat Robert is a hill in the east of the English Lake District, south west of Shap, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
Howes
Peak
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Howes is a subsidiary summit of Branstree in the English Lake District, south east of Selside Pike in Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
Selside Pike
Peak
Selside Pike or Selside is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands between the valleys of Mardale and Swindale in the Far Eastern Fells.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shap and Mardale.
Shap
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shap is a village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. The village is in the historic county of Westmorland. Shap is situated 3½ miles northeast of Shap Rural.
Mardale
Locality
Mardale is a glacial valley in the Lake District, in northern England. The valley used to have a hamlet at its head, called Mardale Green, but this village was submerged in the late 1930s when the water level of the valley's lake, Haweswater, was raised to form Haweswater Reservoir by Manchester Corporation. Mardale is situated 2½ miles west of Shap Rural.
Keld
Village
Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keld is a hamlet in the English county of Cumbria. It lies within the civil parish of Shap. On the banks of the River Lowther it is a mile southwest of Shap and falls within that village's civil parish, Shap Abbey is nearby. Keld is situated 3 miles northeast of Shap Rural.
Shap Rural
- 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 Urdu—“Shap Rural” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “সাপ রুরাল”
- Cebuano: “Shap Rural”
- Chinese: “Shap Rural”
- Chinese: “夏普郊区”
- Chinese: “夏普郊區”
- Dutch: “Shap Rural”
- French: “Shap Rural”
- German: “Shap Rural”
- Gujarati: “શાપ ગ્રામીણ”
- Irish: “Shap (Tuath)”
- Japanese: “シャップ・ルーラル”
- Kannada: “ಶೇಪ್ ರೂರಲ್”
- Korean: “샵 루랄”
- Lithuanian: “Šapas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shap Rural”
- Polish: “Shap Rural”
- Portuguese: “Shap Rural”
- Russian: “Шап-Рурал”
- Spanish: “Shap Rural”
- Swedish: “Shap Rural”
- Tamil: “ஷாப் ரூரல்”
- Telugu: “శాప్ రూరల్”
- Turkish: “Shap Rural”
- Urdu: “شاپ رورل”
- “Shap Rural”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Shap Rural”. Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.