Tongue Rigg

Tongue Rigg is a peak in Shap Rural, Westmorland and Furness, England and has an elevation of 1,473 feet. Tongue Rigg is situated near the locality Widepot, as well as near Todcrags.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Seat Robert and Haskew Tarn.

Seat Robert

Peak

Photo: Ron Shirt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Seat Robert is a hill in the east of the English Lake District, south west of Shap, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Sleddale Hall is a farmhouse on the north side of the Wet Sleddale valley near Shap in Cumbria, England. It featured as "Crow Crag", Uncle Monty's Lake District country cottage in the cult film Withnail and I.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keld and Mardale.

Keld

Village

Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Keld is a hamlet in the English county of Cumbria. It lies within the civil parish of Shap. On the banks of the River Lowther it is a mile southwest of Shap and falls within that village's civil parish, Shap Abbey is nearby.

Mardale

Locality

Mardale is a glacial valley in the Lake District, in northern England. The valley used to have a hamlet at its head, called Mardale Green, but this village was submerged in the late 1930s when the water level of the valley's lake, Haweswater, was raised to form Haweswater Reservoir by Manchester Corporation.

Shap

Village

Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shap is a village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. The village is in the historic county of Westmorland.

Tongue Rigg

Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,473 feet
Category: landform
Location: Shap Rural, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.48333° or 54° 29′ north

Longitude

-2.72746° or 2° 43′ 39″ west

Elevation

1,473 feet (449 metres)

Open location code

9C6VF7MF+82

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5006936648

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12623695

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Widepot and Todcrags.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Sleddale Pike and Hall Moss.

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