Hawkshead
Hawkshead is a picturesque village in Lake District National Park. It is the smallest true town in Britain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 508 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Hawkshead, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hawkshead Grammar School and Hawkshead Market Hall.
Hawkshead Grammar School
Museum
Photo: FFNick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hawkshead Grammar School in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England was founded in 1585 by Archbishop Edwin Sandys, the incumbent Archbishop of York, whose family came from the Hawkshead area.
Hawkshead Market Hall
Community center
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hawkshead Market Hall, also known as Hawkshead Town Hall, is a municipal building in The Square in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Hawkshead Parish Council, is a Grade II listed building.
Esthwaite Water
Lake
Esthwaite Water is one of the smaller and lesser known lakes in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. It is situated between the much larger lakes of Windermere and Coniston Water in the Furness area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roger Ground and Hawkshead Hill.
Roger Ground
Hamlet
Photo: flipflopnick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Roger Ground is a hamlet just south of the village of Hawkshead, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the English county of Cumbria.
Hawkshead Hill
Hamlet
Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hawkshead Hill is a hamlet in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is in the Lake District National Park.
Grizedale
Hamlet
Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grizedale is a hamlet in the Lake District of North West England, in the middle of the Grizedale Forest, located north of Satterthwaite and south of Hawkshead. Grizedale is situated 2½ miles southwest of Hawkshead.
Hawkshead
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.3748° or 54° 22′ 29″ northLongitude
-2.9988° or 2° 59′ 56″ westPopulation
508Elevation
256 feet (78 metres)Open location code
9C6V92F2+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 5324026299OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2647285Wikidata ID
Q691544
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Hawkshead” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Hawkshead”
- Cebuano: “Hawkshead”
- Chinese: “Hawkshead”
- Chinese: “浩克斯海德”
- Chinese: “賀德威克 (坎布里亞郡)”
- Chinese: “霍克斯海”
- Chinese: “霍克斯黑德”
- Dutch: “Hawkshead”
- French: “Hawkshead”
- German: “Hawkshead”
- Irish: “Ceann an Dail”
- Italian: “Hawkshead”
- Japanese: “ホークスヘッド”
- Ladin: “Hawkshead”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hawkshead”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawkshead”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hawkshead”
- Persian: “هاوکسهد”
- Polish: “Hawkshead”
- Swedish: “Hawkshead”
- Turkish: “Hawkshead”
- Welsh: “Hawkshead”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Hawkshead”. Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 3.0.