Swindale Head
Swindale Head is a locality in Shap Rural, Westmorland and Furness, England. Swindale Head is situated nearby to the locality Thorny Knott, as well as near Park Bank.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Selside Pike and Howes.
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.
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.
Seat Robert
Peak
Photo: Ron Shirt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Seat Robert is a hill in the east of the English Lake District, south west of Shap, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Seat Robert is situated 1½ miles southeast of Swindale Head.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mardale and Keld.
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 west of Swindale Head.
Keld
Village
Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keld is a hamlet in the English county of Cumbria. It lies within the civil parish of Shap. On the banks of the River Lowther it is a mile southwest of Shap and falls within that village's civil parish, Shap Abbey is nearby. Keld is situated 3 miles east of Swindale Head.
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 Swindale Head.
Swindale Head
Latitude
54.50578° or 54° 30′ 21″ northLongitude
-2.76646° or 2° 45′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C6VG64M+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 5005342227OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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