Borrowdale
Borrowdale is a valley and civic parish in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria. The valley caters to lowland visitors and hill-walkers with hotels, guesthouses, holiday cottages, bed and breakfasts, youth hostels and campsites.- Type: Village with 333 residents
- Description: civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Borrowdale (civil parish), Cumbria” and “Borrowdale, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Crag and St Andrew.
Great Crag
Peak
Great Crag is a fell in the English Lake District, located near the hamlets of Rosthwaite and Stonethwaite in Borrowdale.
Castle Crag
Peak
Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stonethwaite and Seatoller.
Stonethwaite
Hamlet
Stonethwaite is a small village in the Lake District in the English county of Cumbria, historically part of Cumberland, it is situated in the valley of the Stonethwaite Beck, a side valley of Borrowdale, and within the Lake District National Park.
Seatoller
Village
Seatoller is a hamlet in the civil parish of Borrowdale, in Cumbria, England. Part of the historic county of Cumberland, it lies on the B5289 road at the east foot of the Honister Pass and to the south of Derwent Water.
Rosthwaite
Village
Rosthwaite is a settlement in the Borrowdale parish of Cumberland, Cumbria, England. It is also in Borrowdale in the English Lake District to the south of Derwent Water.
Borrowdale
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.5163° or 54° 30′ 59″ north
Longitude
-3.147° or 3° 8′ 49″ west
Population
333
Elevation
295 feet (90 metres)
Open location code
9C6RGV83+G5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Welsh—“Borrowdale” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Borrowdale”
- Cebuano: “Borrowdale”
- Chinese: “Borrowdale”
- Chinese: “鲍罗代尔”
- Dutch: “Borrowdale”
- French: “Borrowdale”
- German: “Borrowdale”
- Irish: “Borrowdale”
- Italian: “Borrowdale”
- Japanese: “ボローデール”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Borrowdale”
- Polish: “Borrowdale”
- Swedish: “Borrowdale (parish)”
- Swedish: “Borrowdale”
- Turkish: “Borrowdale”
- Welsh: “Borrowdale”
- “Borrowdale”
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