Black Crag

Black Crag is a locality in Shap Rural, Westmorland and Furness, England. Black Crag is situated nearby to the locality Waite Hows, as well as near Stone Howe.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Seat Robert and Haskew Tarn.

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.

Wet Sleddale Reservoir is an artificial reservoir set amongst the Shap Fells 4 kilometres south of the village of Shap in Cumbria, England, and lies just within the boundary of the Lake District National Park. Wet Sleddale Reservoir is situated 2 miles east of Black Crag.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keld and Mardale.

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 2½ miles northeast of Black Crag.

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 3 miles west of Black Crag.

Shap

Village

Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shap is a village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. The village is in the historic county of Westmorland. Shap is situated 3 miles northeast of Black Crag.

Black 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

54.50397° or 54° 30′ 14″ north

Longitude

-2.74409° or 2° 44′ 39″ west

Open location code

9C6VG734+H9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5006937107

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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