Buckbarrow
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.Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Middle Fell and Tosh Tarn.
Middle Fell
Peak
Photo: Espresso Addict, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Middle Fell is a hill or fell in the English Lake District. It is a satellite of Seatallan standing above the northern shore of Wastwater. Middle Fell can be climbed from Greendale near the foot of Wastwater, and a fine view of the lake backed by the Wastwater Screes is visible from the summit.
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.
Wasdale Head
Hamlet
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wasdale Head is a scattered agricultural hamlet in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Wasdale Head claims to be home of the highest mountain, deepest lake, smallest church and biggest liar in England.
Buckbarrow
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,388 feet
- Description: mountain in United Kingdom
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Wasdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.44315° or 54° 26′ 35″ northLongitude
-3.33424° or 3° 20′ 3″ westElevation
1,388 feet (423 metres)Open location code
9C6RCMV8+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 29961859OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ladin—“Buckbarrow” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Buckbarrow”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بوكبارو”
- Ladin: “Buckbarrow”
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