Watch Hill
Watch Hill is a peak in Dufton, Westmorland and Furness, England. Watch Hill is situated nearby to the locality Swallow Hole, as well as near Maizebeck Scar.Places of Interest
Highlights include Murton Fell.
Murton Fell
Peak
Murton Fell is a hill of 675 metres above the village of Murton, Cumbria in Westmorland and Furness district, in the North Pennines. It lies east of the dramatic valley of High Cup Nick It lies on the central watershed of England, as it is drained to the south west into the River Eden flowing into the Solway Firth, and to the north east into the River Tees and ultimately the North Sea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Murton and High Cup Gill.
Murton
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Murton is a small village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. The parish had a population of 330 in 2001, rising to 360 at the 2011 Census.
High Cup Gill
Locality
Photo: Douglal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
High Cup Gill, almost a geometrically perfect U-shaped chasm, is a valley deeply incised into the Pennine scarp to the northeast of Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria and within the North Pennines AONB in northern England.
Dufton
Village
Photo: Sara Hunt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dufton is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of Westmorland, it lies in the Eden Valley and below Great Dun Fell. It is mostly around 180m above sea level.
Watch Hill
- Type: Peak
- Category: landform
- Location: Dufton, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.6338° or 54° 38′ 2″ northLongitude
-2.3894° or 2° 23′ 22″ westOpen location code
9C6VJJM6+G7OpenStreetMap ID
node 2934649186OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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