Helton
Helton is a village in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the English county of Cumbria. It is about a mile south of the village of Askham. Circa 1870, it had a population of 180 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Cumbria, UK
- Also known as: “Helton, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lowther Castle and Ring cairn on Askham Fell including The Cop Stone.
Lowther Castle
Photo: Burtonsi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lowther Castle is a ruined country house in Lowther, Cumbria, England. The estate has belonged to the Lowther family, latterly the earls of Lonsdale, since the Middle Ages.
Askham Hall
Hotel
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Askham Hall is a country house near Askham in Cumbria. It is a Grade I listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whale and Butterwick.
Whale
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whale is a hamlet in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, Cumbria, England. Historically in Westmorland, it is about a mile south of the village of Askham. In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 it had a population of 53.
Butterwick
Hamlet
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Butterwick is a hamlet in Cumbria, England, near the village of Helton. Butterwick is situated 1½ miles south of Helton.
Bampton
Village
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bampton is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area of Cumbria, England, on the edge of the Lake District National Park. Bampton is situated 2½ miles south of Helton.
Helton
- Category: locality
- Location: Askham, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.59221° or 54° 35′ 32″ northLongitude
-2.7586° or 2° 45′ 31″ westElevation
755 feet (230 metres)Open location code
9C6VH6RR+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 29462642OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Helton” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Helton”
- French: “Helton”
- Irish: “Helton”
- Persian: “هلتون، کامبریا”
- Polish: “Helton”
- Swedish: “Helton, Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Helton, Cumbria”
- Welsh: “Helton”
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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 “Helton”. Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.