Wasdale Head
Wasdale Head is a scattered agricultural hamlet in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Wasdale Head claims to be home of the highest mountain, deepest lake, smallest church and biggest liar in England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Wasdale Head, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Olaf’s Church, Wasdale and Ritson’s Force.
St Olaf’s Church, Wasdale
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Olaf's Church in Wasdale Head, Cumbria, is England's smallest parish church. The earliest record of a church on this site is from 1550, though it is likely that there was an earlier church on this site.
Ritson’s Force
Waterfall
Photo: Steve Bayley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ritson's Force is a set of waterfalls in the valley of Mosedale, in the English Lake District. It is also the river that leads past the Wasdale Head Inn and the Great Gable Brewing Company.
Yewbarrow
Peak
Yewbarrow is a fell, in the English Lake District, which lies immediately north of the head of Wast Water. It is 628 metres high and in shape resembles the upturned hull of a boat or a barrow.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seathwaite and Gatesgarth.
Seathwaite
Hamlet
Seathwaite is a small hamlet in the Borrowdale civil parish of Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England. It is in the Lake District near Scafell Pike and 8 miles southwest of Keswick at the end of a minor road that heads southwest from the hamlet of Seatoller… Seathwaite is situated 3½ miles northeast of Wasdale Head.
Gatesgarth
Hamlet
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gatesgarth is a settlement in Lake District of England. It is situated to the east of the lake of Buttermere, on the B5289 road on its western approach to the Honister Pass. Gatesgarth is situated 4 miles north of Wasdale Head.
Seatoller
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Seatoller is a settlement in Borrowdale in the English Lake District. Historically part of Cumberland, it lies on the B5289 road at the east foot of the Honister Pass, and to the south of Derwent Water. Seatoller is situated 5 miles northeast of Wasdale Head.
Wasdale Head
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Wasdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.46769° or 54° 28′ 4″ northLongitude
-3.25621° or 3° 15′ 22″ westElevation
272 feet (83 metres)Open location code
9C6RFP9V+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 4938356690OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Wasdale Head” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Wasdale Head”
- French: “Wasdale Head”
- Irish: “Wasdale Head”
- Polish: “Wasdale Head”
- Welsh: “Wasdale Head”
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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 “Wasdale Head”. Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.