Blackhow Wood

Blackhow Wood is a locality in Cleator Moor, Cumberland, England. Blackhow Wood is situated nearby to the locality Bragg Wood, as well as near Knott.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dent and St Leonard.

Dent

Peak

Photo: Stephen Dawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dent is a small fell on the fringe of the English Lake District near the towns of Cleator Moor and Egremont. Sometimes known as Long Barrow, it is traditionally the first fell encountered by hikers following Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk.

St Leonard

Church

Photo: Alex.brad, CC BY-SA 4.0.

St Leonard is a church in Cleator, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is Crosslacon. The church is a Grade II listed building.

Flat Fell

Peak

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Flat Fell is a hill located on the edge of the English Lake District, standing at 272m. It is included in Alfred Wainwright's Outlying Fells of Lakeland book, sharing a chapter with Dent. Wainwright's clockwise route to the two summits starts at Wath Brow. Flat Fell is situated 1½ miles east of Blackhow Wood.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cleator and Briscoe.

Cleator

Village

Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cleator is a village in the civil parish of Cleator Moor, in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. Cleator is located on the edge of the Lake District, with Dent Fell on the skyline to the south east.

Briscoe

Locality

Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Briscoe is a hamlet in Cumbria, England. It is located to the east of Egremont.

Cleator Moor

Town

Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cleator Moor is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The parish was historically called Cleator. During the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the new settlement of Cleator Moor was built on the moorland to the north of Cleator village, based around mining and the iron industry.

Blackhow Wood

Type: Locality
Location: Cleator Moor, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.50474° or 54° 30′ 17″ north

Longitude

-3.50431° or 3° 30′ 16″ west

Open location code

9C6RGF3W+V7

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5024453752

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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