Great Crosthwaite
Great Crosthwaite is a suburb of Keswick in the Lake District, in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England.- Type: Suburb
- Description: area in Keswick, Cumbria, UK
- Also known as: “Great Crosthwaite, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Derwent Pencil Museum and Keswick School.
Derwent Pencil Museum
Museum
Photo: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Derwent Pencil Museum is a museum dedicated to the manufacturing and history of pencils, located in Keswick, in the north-west of England.
Keswick School
School
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keswick School is a coeducational 11–18 academy in Cumbria, England. There are 1200 pupils on roll, with 260 students in the sixth form and 40 boarders.
St Kentigern’s Church, Crosthwaite
Church
Photo: Trevor Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crosthwaite Parish Church is a church at Great Crosthwaite on the outskirts of Keswick in Cumbria, England. It is dedicated to St Kentigern and is the Anglican church of the parish of Crosthwaite.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keswick and Portinscale.
Keswick
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Keswick is the northern tourist hub of the Lake District National Park and is a favourite base for serious walkers and climbers, artists and photographers, and anyone who enjoys mountain and lake scenery.
Portinscale
Village
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portinscale is a village in Cumbria, England, close to the western shore of Derwentwater in the Lake District National Park 1+1⁄2 miles from Keswick. For administrative purposes, Portinscale lies within the civil parish of Above Derwent, the unitary authority of Cumberland, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria.
Applethwaite
Village
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Applethwaite is a village in the foothills of Skiddaw near Keswick in the English Lake District. It is in the county of Cumbria, and forms part of the civil parish of Underskiddaw, which has a population of 282.
Great Crosthwaite
- Category: locality
- Location: Underskiddaw, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.60836° or 54° 36′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.1443° or 3° 8′ 40″ westElevation
285 feet (87 metres)Open location code
9C6RJV54+87OpenStreetMap ID
node 4874303861OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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