Gale Common
Gale Common is a hill in Womersley, Selby District, England and has an elevation of 223 feet. Gale Common is situated nearby to the locality Whitleybridge, as well as near the village Cridling Stubbs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whitley Bridge railway station and Kellingley Colliery.
Whitley Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Adambro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 20 miles east of Leeds.
Kellingley Colliery
Mine
Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kellingley Colliery, known affectionately as the 'Big K', was a deep coal mine in North Yorkshire, England, 3.6 miles east of Ferrybridge power station.
Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington
Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington, is a grade I listed 12th century church in the village of Kellington, North Yorkshire, England. Excavations at the site have revealed the 14th century tomb related to the Knights Templar, and in the 1990s, the foundations of the church were underpinned because of possible subsidence effects from the nearby Kellingley Colliery. Church of St Edmund King and Martyr, Kellington is situated 2 miles north of Gale Common.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitley and Cridling Stubbs.
Whitley
Village
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitley is a village in North Yorkshire, England, close to the Aire and Calder Navigation and the M62 motorway. The population of the village at the 2001 census was recorded as being 574, which had risen to 1,021 by the time of the 2011 census.
Cridling Stubbs
Village
Cridling Stubbs is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire. It is near the town of Knottingley. It 2011 it had a population of 152. The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.
Eggborough
Village
Photo: Iain Macaulay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eggborough is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, close to the county borders with South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding. Eggborough is situated 1½ miles northeast of Gale Common.
Gale Common
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 223 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Womersley, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.68916° or 53° 41′ 21″ northLongitude
-1.18444° or 1° 11′ 4″ westElevation
223 feet (68 metres)Open location code
9C5WMRQ8+M6GeoNames ID
12612298
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