Mewith Head

Mewith Head is a locality in Bentham, Craven District, England. Mewith Head is situated nearby to the locality Waterscale Island, as well as near Great Breast.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Greystonegill Bridge and Clapham railway station.

Clapham railway station

Railway station

Photo: Avocet, Public domain.

Clapham is a railway station on the Bentham Line, which runs between Leeds and Morecambe via Skipton. The station, situated 48 miles north-west of Leeds, serves the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire. Clapham railway station is situated 2 miles east of Mewith Head.

Great Stone of Fourstones

Stone

Photo: Mike and Kirsty Grundy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Great Stone of Fourstones, or the Big Stone as it is known locally, is a glacial deposit on the moorlands of Tatham Fells, England, straddling the county border between North Yorkshire and Lancashire, near Bentham in the District of Craven. Great Stone of Fourstones is situated 2 miles west of Mewith Head.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keasden and Newby.

Keasden

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Keasden is a hamlet in the civil parish of Clapham-cum-Newby, in the county of North Yorkshire, in the north-western England. It is about 2 miles to the south west of the village of Clapham and about 5 miles to the east of Bentham.

Newby

Hamlet

Photo: SIMON PHILLIPS, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Newby is a hamlet, which is situated 2½ miles northeast of Mewith Head.

High Bentham

Town

Photo: Ian Lane, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bentham is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, with a population of 3,027 at the 2011 Census. The parish includes the town High Bentham, occasionally known as Higher Bentham or just Bentham, and the older adjacent village Low Bentham. High Bentham is situated 2½ miles northwest of Mewith Head.

Mewith Head

Type: Locality
Location: Bentham, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.09739° or 54° 5′ 51″ north

Longitude

-2.45599° or 2° 27′ 22″ west

Elevation

512 feet (156 metres)

Open location code

9C6V3GWV+XJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 31340831

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

GeoNames ID

13279347

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