Ritchie Crag

Ritchie Crag is a locality in Shap Rural, Westmorland and Furness, England. Ritchie Crag is situated nearby to the locality Rowantreethwaite, as well as near Mardale Common.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Selside Pike and Branstree.

Selside Pike

Peak

Selside Pike or Selside is a fell in the English Lake District. It stands between the valleys of Mardale and Swindale in the Far Eastern Fells.

Branstree

Peak

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Branstree is a fell in the Far Eastern part of the English Lake District. It overlooks the valley of Mardale and Haweswater Reservoir. Branstree is situated 1½ miles southwest of Ritchie Crag.

Howes

Peak

Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Howes is a subsidiary summit of Branstree in the English Lake District, south east of Selside Pike in Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mardale and Bampton.

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.

Bampton

Village

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bampton is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area of Cumbria, England, on the edge of the Lake District National Park. Bampton is situated 4 miles northeast of Ritchie Crag.

Sadgill

Village

Photo: steven ruffles, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sadgill is a hamlet in Longsleddale, Cumbria, England. It is a divided settlement, also containing Low Sadgill. Sadgill is situated 4 miles south of Ritchie Crag.

Ritchie Crag

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

54.50337° or 54° 30′ 12″ north

Longitude

-2.79058° or 2° 47′ 26″ west

Open location code

9C6VG635+8Q

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5004749136

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Rowantreethwaite and Mardale Common.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Brown Howe (Mardale) and Rowantreethwaite Well.

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