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Keswick

Keswick is the northern tourist hub of the and is a favourite base for serious walkers and climbers, artists and photographers, and anyone who enjoys mountain and lake scenery.
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  • Type: Town with 4,280 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Keswick-on-Derwentwater”, “Keswick, Cumbria”, and “Koswick”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Derwent Pencil Museum and Theatre by the Lake.

Museum
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a museum dedicated to the manufacturing and history of pencils, located in Keswick, in the north-west of .

Theater building
Photo: Phil Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated on the shores of in the in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It opened in 1999, replacing the mobile Century Theatre, and was made possible by an Arts Council Lottery Fund Grant.

Town hall
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a prominent historic building situated at the southern end of Main Street in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It is Grade II* listed.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castlerigg stone circle and Portinscale.

Locality
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the , . It is one of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from approximately 3200 BC to 2500 BC, during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages.

Village
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England, close to the western shore of in the Lake District National Park 1+1⁄2 miles from Keswick. For administrative purposes, lies within the civil parish of , the unitary authority of , and the ceremonial county of .

Village
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the foothills of near Keswick in the English . It is in the county of , and forms part of the civil parish of , which has a population of 282.

Keswick

Latitude
54.601° or 54° 36′ 4″ north
Longitude
-3.1376° or 3° 8′ 15″ west
Population
4,280
Elevation
305 feet (93 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB KWC
Open location code
9C6RJV26+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29368445
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2645756
Wiki­data ID
Q1025076
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Keswick” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيسويك، كمبريا”
  • Armenian: “Կեսուիկ”
  • Asturian: “Keswick”
  • Basque: “Keswick (Cumbria)”
  • Basque: “Keswick”
  • Belarusian: “Кесуік”
  • Bengali: “কেজউইক”
  • Cebuano: “Keswick”
  • Chinese: “Keswick”
  • Chinese: “凯西克”
  • Chinese: “凱西克”
  • Czech: “Keswick”
  • Danish: “Keswick”
  • Dutch: “Keswick”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيسويك”
  • French: “Keswick”
  • German: “Keswick”
  • Gujarati: “કેસવિક”
  • Irish: “Keswick, Cumbria”
  • Irish: “Keswick”
  • Italian: “Keswick”
  • Japanese: “ケズィック”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆಸ್ವಿಕ್”
  • Korean: “케직”
  • Ladin: “Keswick”
  • Lithuanian: “Kesvikas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Keswick (Cumbria)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Keswick i Cumbria”
  • Persian: “کزیک، کامبریا”
  • Polish: “Keswick”
  • Portuguese: “Keswick”
  • Romanian: “Keswick”
  • Russian: “Кесвик”
  • Russian: “Кесуик”
  • Slovak: “Keswick”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کزیک، کامبریا”
  • Spanish: “Keswick”
  • Swedish: “Keswick”
  • Tamil: “கெஸ்விக்”
  • Telugu: “కెస్విక్”
  • Turkish: “Keswick, Cumbria”
  • Urdu: “کیسویک”
  • Volapük: “Keswick”
  • Welsh: “Keswick, Cumbria”
  • Welsh: “Keswick”
  • Western Frisian: “Keswick”

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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 “Keswick”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.