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 Low Rigg.
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.
Low Rigg
Peak
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.
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.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.5884° or 54° 35′ 18″ northLongitude
-3.0716° or 3° 4′ 18″ westElevation
1,168 feet (356 metres)Open location code
9C6RHWQH+99OpenStreetMap ID
node 29765655OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q5756296
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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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