Ure Head

Ure Head is a locality in High Abbotside, Richmondshire District, England. Ure Head is situated nearby to the locality Hell Gill Grains, as well as near Low Capple Mere.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lunds Fell and Hugh Seat.

Lunds Fell

Peak

Lunds Fell, also known as Sails, is a hill in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in North Yorkshire, England. Lunds Fell is located 5 miles north-west of Hawes and straddles the divide between the Ure Valley to the south and the Eden Valley to the north.

Hugh Seat

Peak

Hugh Seat is a mountain, or more accurately a fell, in Mallerstang on the eastern edge of Cumbria, England. It lies on the border between Cumbria and North Yorkshire.

Eden Sike Cave is a small cave in Mallerstang in the Eden valley in Cumbria, England 400 metres north of Hell Gill. The entrance is 391 metres north west of an obvious resurgence in a small shakehole. Eden Sike Cave is situated 1½ miles west of Ure Head.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lunds and Aisgill.

Lunds

Hamlet

Lunds is a hamlet in North Yorkshire, England, near to the watershed of the Eden and Ure rivers. It is on the border between Cumbria and North Yorkshire, and was at one time allocated to the West Riding, but has been traditionally treated as being in the North Riding. Lunds is situated 1½ miles southwest of Ure Head.

Aisgill

Hamlet

Photo: George Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Aisgill is the southernmost of the hamlets that form the parish of Mallerstang in the English county of Cumbria. It is on the B6259 road, at the head of Mallerstang dale, just before the boundary between Cumbria and North Yorkshire. Aisgill is situated 2 miles west of Ure Head.

Mallerstang

Hamlet

Photo: Oldfaw, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mallerstang is a civil parish in the extreme east of Cumbria, and, geographically, a dale at the head of the upper Eden Valley. Originally part of Westmorland, it lies about 6 miles south of the nearest town, Kirkby Stephen. Mallerstang is situated 2½ miles northwest of Ure Head.

Ure Head

Type: Locality
Location: High Abbotside, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.36724° or 54° 22′ 2″ north

Longitude

-2.29912° or 2° 17′ 57″ west

Open location code

9C6V9P82+V9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 344499424

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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