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. Howes is situated 1½ miles south of Woof Crag.

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 2 miles southwest of Woof Crag.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mardale and Bampton.

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.

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 3½ miles north of Woof 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 3½ miles northeast of Woof Crag.

Woof 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

54.50846° or 54° 30′ 31″ north

Longitude

-2.78446° or 2° 47′ 4″ west

Open location code

9C6VG658+96

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5005342001

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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