Murton Fell
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.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,208 feet
- Description: hill in Murton, Eden, Cumbria, England
- Also known as: “Murton Fell SE Top”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Warcop Training Area and St John the Baptist, Murton.
Warcop Training Area
Military installation
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Warcop Training Area is a UK Ministry of Defence military training area near the village of Warcop in Cumbria. Part of the Defence Training Estate, the area consists of approximately 24,000 acres of MoD freehold land.
St John the Baptist, Murton
Church
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John the Baptist, Murton is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Murton and Hilton.
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.
Hilton
Village
Photo: David Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hilton is a village in Cumbria, England, in the civil parish of Murton, about 3 miles east of Appleby-in-Westmorland and at an elevation of 752 feet. In 1870-72 the township had a population of 253.
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.
Murton Fell
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Murton, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.611° or 54° 36′ 40″ northLongitude
-2.3759° or 2° 22′ 33″ westElevation
2,208 feet (673 metres)Open location code
9C6VJJ6F+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 426628523OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q105506679
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In Other Languages
“Murton Fell” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Murton Fell”
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