Tongue Moor

Tongue Moor is a locality in Eskdale, Cumberland, England. Tongue Moor is situated nearby to the locality Eskdale Moor, as well as near Ellerhow Moss.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Illgill Head and Burnmoor Tarn.

Illgill Head

Peak

Photo: Archie424, Public domain.

Illgill Head is a fell in the English Lake District. It is known more commonly as the northern portion of the Wastwater Screes. The fell is 609 metres high and stands along the south-east shore of Wastwater, the deepest lake in England.

Burnmoor Tarn

Photo: Steve Partridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Burnmoor Tarn, on Eskdale Fell in Cumbria, England, is the largest entirely natural tarns in the Lake District. Its waters flow into Whillan Beck at the tarn's north-eastern corner, which immediately turns south and flows into Eskdale, joining the Esk at Beckfoot.

Whin Rigg

Peak

Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Whin Rigg is a fell in the English Lake District, situated in the western segment of the national park, 22 kilometres south east of the town of Whitehaven.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boot and Eskdale Green.

Boot

Village

Photo: Steve Partridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Boot is a small village in Eskdale on the western side of the English Lake District. It lies within the civil parish of Eskdale, the unitary authority of Cumberland, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria. Boot is situated 2 miles south of Tongue Moor.

Eskdale Green

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Eskdale Green is a small village in Cumbria at one end of the Eskdale Valley. The hamlet of Boot has an old corn mill in the heart but wander south away from the mill to find the little old church by the river.

Nether Wasdale

Village

Photo: Peter Eckersley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Nether Wasdale is a village in Cumbria, England, located in the valley and civil parish of Wasdale, near the River Irt and just over a mile to the west of the Wastwater lake. Nether Wasdale is situated 3 miles west of Tongue Moor.

Tongue Moor

Type: Locality
Location: Eskdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.42364° or 54° 25′ 25″ north

Longitude

-3.27868° or 3° 16′ 43″ west

Open location code

9C6RCPFC+FG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4411970569

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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