High Rigg

High Rigg is a small fell located in the English Lake District, approximately three miles southeast of the town of Keswick. It occupies an unusual position, surrounded on all sides by higher fells but not connected by any obvious ridge.

Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,168 feet
Description: hill in Cumbria, England, UK
Also known as: “St. Johns”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Clough Head and St John’s Church, St John’s in the Vale.

Clough Head

Peak

Photo: Charles Rispin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Clough Head is a fell, or hill, in the English Lake District. It marks the northern end of the main ridge of the Helvellyn range and is often walked as part of the ridge walk.

St John’s Church, St John’s in the Vale

Church

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John's Church is in the valley of St John's in the Vale, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Derwent, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle.

Low Rigg

Peak

Photo: Antiquary, CC BY 4.0.

Low Rigg is a small hill in the English Lake District a few miles east of the town of Keswick and slightly north of its larger neighbour High Rigg. Geologically, Low Rigg is a lens-shaped laccolith consisting of an intrusion of a fine-grained granite.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keswick and Castlerigg stone circle.

Keswick

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Keswick is the northern tourist hub of the Lake District National Park and is a favourite base for serious walkers and climbers, artists and photographers, and anyone who enjoys mountain and lake scenery.

Castlerigg stone circle

Locality

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Castlerigg stone circle is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England. In this period, the Lake District – a mountainous area in which Castlerigg is located – saw particularly high levels of Neolithic stone circle construction, with other similar examples including Swinside, Gamelands, Elva Plain, and Long Meg and Her Daughters.

Threlkeld

Village

Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Threlkeld is a village and civil parish in the north of the Lake District in Cumbria, England, to the east of Keswick. It is in the historic county of Cumberland.

High Rigg

Categories: fell, hill, and landform
Location: St John’s, Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.5884° or 54° 35′ 18″ north

Longitude

-3.0716° or 3° 4′ 18″ west

Elevation

1,168 feet (356 metres)

Open location code

9C6RHWQH+99

OpenStreetMap ID

node 29765655

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

Wikidata ID

Q5756296

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Ladin—“High Rigg” goes by many names.

Dutch: “High Rigg”
Ladin: “High Rigg”

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