Hawkshead
Hawkshead is a picturesque village in Lake District National Park. It is the smallest true town in Britain.
- Type: Village with 508 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Hawkshead, Cumbria”, “浩克斯海德”, “霍克斯海”, and “霍克斯黑德”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hawkshead Grammar School and Esthwaite Water.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Near and Far Sawrey and Roger Ground.
Near and Far Sawrey
Village
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″ north
Longitude
-2.9988° or 2° 59′ 56″ west
Population
508
Elevation
256 feet (78 metres)
Open location code
9C6V92F2+WF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Hawkshead” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Hawkshead”
- Cebuano: “Hawkshead”
- Chinese: “賀德威克 (坎布里亞郡)”
- 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”
- Urdu: “ہاکس ہیڈ”
- Welsh: “Hawkshead”
- “Hawkshead”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Walker Ground and Town End.
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