Watch Hill
Watch Hill is a small hill lying on the western fringe of the Lake District in England, north east of Whitehaven. It should not be confused with another Watch Hill some 19 kilometres to the north-east, near Cockermouth, which is classified as a Marilyn and is one of Wainwright's Outlying Fells.Places of Interest
Highlights include Rosehill Theatre and Parton railway station.
Parton railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parton railway station is a railway station serving the village of Parton in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lowca and Whitehaven.
Lowca
Village
Photo: David Trochos, CC BY 3.0.
Lowca is a village and civil parish in the English county of Cumbria, just to the north of the village of Moresby. It had a population of 773 in 2001, increasing to 888 at the 2011 Census.
Whitehaven
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies 4 miles outside the Lake District National Park.
Corkickle
Suburb
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Corkickle is a suburb of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England. It is served by Corkickle railway station. Corkickle is situated 2½ miles southwest of Watch Hill.
Watch Hill
- Type: Locality
- Description: 172 m hill near Whitehaven in the Lake District
- Category: mountain
- Location: Moresby, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.57515° or 54° 34′ 31″ northLongitude
-3.54374° or 3° 32′ 37″ westOpen location code
9C6RHFG4+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 5193325255OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q4018506
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Venetian—“Watch Hill” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Watch Hill”
- Italian: “Watch Hill”
- Ladin: “Watch Hill (Whitehaven)”
- Ladin: “Watch Hill”
- Venetian: “Watch Hill”
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