High Birkhow
High Birkhow is a peak in Wasdale, Cumberland, England and has an elevation of 410 feet. High Birkhow is situated nearby to the locality Woodhow, as well as near Ashness How.Places of Interest
Highlights include Whin Rigg and Buckbarrow.
Whin Rigg
Peak
Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whin Rigg is a fell in the English Lake District, situated in the western segment of the national park, 22 kilometres south east of the town of Whitehaven.
Buckbarrow
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buckbarrow is a small fell in the English Lake District overlooking the western end of Wastwater. It is featured in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells and is given a height of 1,410 ft approximately; however, the Ordnance Survey and other guidebooks now give an altitude of 423 m.
St Michael & All Angels, Nether Wasdale
Church
Photo: David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael & All Angels' Church in Nether Wasdale, Cumbria, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is Gosforth and Wasdale. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nether Wasdale and Santon Bridge.
Nether Wasdale
Village
Photo: Peter Eckersley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nether Wasdale is a village in Cumbria, England, located in the valley and civil parish of Wasdale, near the River Irt and just over a mile to the west of the Wastwater lake.
Santon Bridge
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Santon Bridge is a small village in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, at a bridge over the River Irt. The civil parish is called Irton with Santon. The population of this civil parish as at the 2011 census was 316.
Eskdale Green
Eskdale Green is a small village in Cumbria at one end of the Eskdale Valley. The hamlet of Boot has an old corn mill in the heart but wander south away from the mill to find the little old church by the river.
High Birkhow
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 410 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Wasdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.42723° or 54° 25′ 38″ northLongitude
-3.32515° or 3° 19′ 31″ westElevation
410 feet (125 metres)Open location code
9C6RCMGF+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 4896955317OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12613520
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