Raikes

Raikes is a locality in Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Westmorland and Furness, England. Raikes is situated nearby to the locality Little Stickle, as well as near Out Moss.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Stickle and Stickle Pike.

Great Stickle

Peak

Great Stickle is a fell located in the southern Lake District of England with an altitude of 305 m. Alfred Wainwright included it in the Stickle Pike chapter of his "The Outlying Fells of Lakeland".

Stickle Pike is an outlying fell located in the southern Lake District near the small town of Broughton-in-Furness, with the summit situated between the lower Duddon Valley and the quiet smaller valley of Dunnerdale.

Holy Innocents Church, Broughton Mills

Church

Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Broughton Mills and Ulpha.

Broughton Mills

Hamlet

Photo: Andrew Hill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Broughton Mills is a village in Cumbria, England, located 2 miles from the larger town of Broughton-in-Furness. The village consists of about 40 households, a phonebox, church and a pub called the Blacksmiths Arms.

Ulpha

Village

Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ulpha is a small village and civil parish in the Duddon Valley in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. Historically in Cumberland, it forms part of the Cumberland unitary authority area.

Broughton-in-Furness

Town

Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Broughton in Furness is a market town in the civil parish of Broughton West in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It had a population of 529 at the 2011 Census. Broughton-in-Furness is situated 2½ miles south of Raikes.

Raikes

Type: Locality
Location: Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.31001° or 54° 18′ 36″ north

Longitude

-3.21909° or 3° 13′ 9″ west

Open location code

9C6R8Q6J+29

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4942419741

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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