Great Carrs
Great Carrs is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands above Wrynose Pass in the southern part of the District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Freddyj66, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Swirl How and Grey Friar.
Swirl How
Peak
Photo: Freddyj66, Public domain.
Swirl How is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands between Coniston and the Duddon Valley in the southern part of the District. It rivals the Old Man of Coniston as the highest point within the traditional County Palatine of Lancashire.
Grey Friar
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grey Friar is a fell in the English Lake District, it is one of the Coniston Fells and is situated 13 kilometres west-south-west of Ambleside. It reaches a height of 770 metres and stands to the north west of the other Coniston Fells, a little off the beaten track and tends to be the least visited of the group.
Wrynose Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: Katanaismybike, CC BY 2.5.
The Wrynose Pass is a mountain pass in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England between the Duddon Valley and Little Langdale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cockley Beck and Seathwaite.
Cockley Beck
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Smethurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cockley Beck is a small hamlet, situated in the Duddon Valley in Cumbria, England. Historically, the hamlet was part of Lancashire. Located today within the Lake District National Park, it was established in the late 16th century, and is closely associated with the mining of copper ore in Cumbria.
Seathwaite
Village
Photo: Gordon Mellor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Seathwaite is a village in the Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria in North West England. It is in the Lake District and part of historic Lancashire.
Great Carrs
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,575 feet
- Description: mountain in Cumbria, United Kingdom
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Coniston, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.39878° or 54° 23′ 56″ northLongitude
-3.12476° or 3° 7′ 29″ westElevation
2,575 feet (785 metres)Open location code
9C6R9VXG+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 29876669OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ladin—“Great Carrs” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Great Carrs”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل جريات كارس”
- Ladin: “Great Carrs”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Broad Slack and Little Carrs.
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Highlights include Top of Broad Slack and Swirl Hause.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Great Carrs”. Photo: Freddyj66, Public domain.