Nuts Hill

Nuts Hill is a locality in Helbeck, Westmorland and Furness, England. Nuts Hill is situated nearby to the locality Spring Hills, as well as near Helbeck Wall End.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fox Tower and Brough Castle.

Fox Tower

Building

Photo: Simon Ledingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fox Tower is a tower built by John Metcalf Carleton, an industrial entrepreneur, as a folly in 1775 on his large estate next to Brough, a village in Cumbria, England.

Brough Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Brough, Cumbria, England. The castle was built by William Rufus around 1092 within the old Roman fort of Verterae to protect a key route through the Pennine Mountains. Brough Castle is situated 1½ miles southeast of Nuts Hill.

Verterae

Archaeological site

Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Verterae was a Roman fort in the modern-day village of Brough, Cumbria, England. Occupied between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, it protected a key Roman road in the north of England. Verterae is situated 1½ miles southeast of Nuts Hill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brough and Flitholme.

Brough

Village

Photo: Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Brough, sometimes known as Brough under Stainmore, is a village and civil parish in the historic county of Westmorland and the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, within the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, on the western fringe of the Pennines near Stainmore.

Flitholme

Hamlet

Photo: David Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Flitholme is a hamlet in the parish of Musgrave, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the English county of Cumbria. Flitholme is situated 1½ miles southwest of Nuts Hill.

Great Musgrave

Village

Photo: William Metcalfe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Great Musgrave is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Musgrave, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is about a mile west of Brough. Great Musgrave is situated 2 miles southwest of Nuts Hill.

Nuts Hill

Type: Locality
Location: Helbeck, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.54329° or 54° 32′ 36″ north

Longitude

-2.33996° or 2° 20′ 24″ west

Open location code

9C6VGMV6+82

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5230012958

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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