Kit Crag

Kit Crag is a locality in Shap Rural, Westmorland and Furness, England. Kit Crag is situated nearby to the locality High Forest, as well as near Naddle Forest.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Selside Pike and Towtop Kirk early Christian enclosure.

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. Selside Pike is situated 2 miles south of Kit Crag.

Towtop Kirk early Christian enclosure

Archaeological site

Photo: David Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Towtop Kirk early Christian enclosure is an archaeological site, which is situated 2 miles north of Kit Crag.

Scalebarrow Tarn

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Scalebarrow Tarn is situated 2 miles east of Kit Crag.

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. Mardale is situated 2 miles southwest of Kit Crag.

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 3 miles northeast of Kit Crag.

Bampton Grange

Village

Photo: Colin Kinnear, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bampton Grange is a village in Cumbria, England. The Haweswater Beck flows eastward, just north of Firth Woods, and then turns north to join the River Lowther between Bampton and Bampton Grange. Bampton Grange is situated 3 miles northeast of Kit Crag.

Kit 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

54.52229° or 54° 31′ 20″ north

Longitude

-2.79052° or 2° 47′ 26″ west

Open location code

9C6VG6C5+WQ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5004930609

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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