Bursting Knott

Bursting Knott is a locality in Wasdale, Cumberland, England. Bursting Knott is situated nearby to the locality Lower Kern Knott, as well as near Toad How.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Gable and Green Gable.

Great Gable

Peak

Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.

Great Gable is a mountain in the Lake District, United Kingdom. It is named after its appearance as a pyramid from Wasdale, though it is dome-shaped from most other directions.

Green Gable is a fell in the English Lake District often traversed by walkers en route to its more famous neighbour Great Gable. It can be ascended from Honister Pass, Seathwaite in Borrowdale, or Ennerdale.

Lingmell

Peak

Photo: Dougsim, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lingmell is a fell in the English Lake District, standing above the village of Wasdale Head. It is an outlier on the north-west flank of Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wasdale Head and Seathwaite.

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 1½ miles west of Bursting Knott.

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 2 miles northeast of Bursting Knott.

Seatoller

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Seatoller is a hamlet in the civil parish of Borrowdale, in Cumbria, England. Part of the historic county of Cumberland, it lies on the B5289 road at the east foot of the Honister Pass and to the south of Derwent Water. Seatoller is situated 3½ miles northeast of Bursting Knott.

Bursting Knott

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

54.47422° or 54° 28′ 27″ north

Longitude

-3.2147° or 3° 12′ 53″ west

Open location code

9C6RFQFP+M4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4887979932

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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