Sheepbone Buttress

Sheepbone Buttress is a locality in Buttermere, Cumberland, England. Sheepbone Buttress is situated nearby to the locality White Cove, as well as near Burtness Comb.

Places of Interest

Highlights include High Crag and Buttermere.

High Crag

Peak

Photo: Archie424, Public domain.

High Crag stands at the southern end of the High Stile ridge which divides the valleys of Ennerdale and Buttermere in the west of the English Lake District.

Buttermere is a lake in the Lake District in North West England. It has a length of approximately 2 kilometres and a maximum width of 0.54 kilometres, an area of 0.9 square kilometres, a maximum depth of 28.6 metres, and a surface elevation of 100.3 metres above sea level.

High Stile

Peak

Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

High Stile is a mountain in the western part of the Lake District in North West England. It is the eleventh-highest English Marilyn, standing 807 metres high, and has a relative height of 362 metres.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gatesgarth and Wasdale Head.

Gatesgarth

Hamlet

Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gatesgarth is a settlement in Lake District of England. It is situated to the east of the lake of Buttermere, on the B5289 road on its western approach to the Honister Pass.

Wasdale Head

Hamlet

Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wasdale Head is a scattered agricultural hamlet in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Wasdale Head claims to be home of the highest mountain, deepest lake, smallest church and biggest liar in England. Wasdale Head is situated 3½ miles south of Sheepbone Buttress.

Seathwaite

Hamlet

Photo: Antiquary, CC BY 4.0.

Seathwaite is a small hamlet in the Borrowdale civil parish of Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England. It is in the Lake District near Scafell Pike and 8 miles southwest of Keswick at the end of a minor road that heads southwest from the hamlet of Seatoller… Seathwaite is situated 3½ miles east of Sheepbone Buttress.

Sheepbone Buttress

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

54.51838° or 54° 31′ 6″ north

Longitude

-3.26866° or 3° 16′ 7″ west

Open location code

9C6RGP9J+9G

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4870061402

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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