Long Grain

Long Grain is a locality in Bampton, Westmorland and Furness, England. Long Grain is situated nearby to the locality Whelter Bottom, as well as near Whelter Crags.

Places of Interest

Highlights include High Raise and Wether Hill.

High Raise

Peak

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

High Raise is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the west of Haweswater Reservoir in the Far Eastern Fells. Note that another High Raise is the highpoint of the Central Fells.

Wether Hill

Peak

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Wether Hill is a fell in the English Lake District, between Martindale and Haweswater. It lies on the main north-south ridge of the Far Eastern Fells between Loadpot Hill and High Raise.

Kidsty Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the west of Haweswater Reservoir. It is a subsidiary top of Rampsgill Head, but has long achieved the status of a separate fell, thanks to its classic peaked profile. Kidsty Pike is situated 1½ miles southwest of Long Grain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mardale and Martindale.

Mardale

Locality

Mardale is a glacial valley in the Lake District, in northern England. The valley used to have a hamlet at its head, called Mardale Green, but this village was submerged in the late 1930s when the water level of the valley's lake, Haweswater, was raised to form Haweswater Reservoir by Manchester Corporation. Mardale is situated 2 miles southeast of Long Grain.

Martindale

Hamlet

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Martindale is a valley, village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, England, situated within the Lake District National Park between the lakes of Ullswater and Haweswater. Martindale is situated 3 miles northwest of Long Grain.

Howtown

Hamlet

Photo: David Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Howtown is a hamlet in Cumbria, England, situated at a small harbour on the east shore of Ullswater in the Lake District. It lies within the civil parish of Martindale. Howtown is situated 3 miles north of Long Grain.

Long Grain

Type: Locality
Location: Bampton, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.52492° or 54° 31′ 30″ north

Longitude

-2.83458° or 2° 50′ 5″ west

Open location code

9C6VG5F8+X5

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5000000243

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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