High Spy
High Spy is a fell in the English Lake District it is situated on the ridge that separates the Newlands Valley from Borrowdale, eight kilometres south of Keswick.Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dale Head and Castle Crag.
Dale Head
Peak
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dale Head is a fell in the north-western sector of the Lake District, in northern England. It is 753 metres above sea level and stands immediately north of Honister Pass, the road between Borrowdale and Buttermere.
Castle Crag
Peak
Photo: Stephen Horncastle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet.
Hindscarth
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hindscarth is a mountain between the valleys of Buttermere and Newlands, in the north-western part of the English Lake District. The fell's name is derived from two words from the Old Norse language, Hind and Skarth, and means the pass used by the red deer.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seatoller and Rosthwaite.
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.
Rosthwaite
Village
Photo: Steve Mason, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosthwaite is a settlement in the Borrowdale parish of Cumberland, Cumbria, England. It is also in Borrowdale in the English Lake District to the south of Derwent Water.
Borrowdale
Photo: Steve Mason, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Borrowdale is a valley and civic parish in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria. The valley caters to lowland visitors and hill-walkers with hotels, guesthouses, holiday cottages, bed and breakfasts, youth hostels and campsites.
High Spy
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,142 feet
- Description: mountain in United Kingdom
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Above Derwent, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.53561° or 54° 32′ 8″ northLongitude
-3.18514° or 3° 11′ 7″ westElevation
2,142 feet (653 metres)Open location code
9C6RGRP7+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 29954488OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ladin—“High Spy” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “High Spy”
- Ladin: “High Spy”
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