Howbeck Head

Howbeck Head is a locality in Cotherstone, County Durham, England. Howbeck Head is situated nearby to the locality Bowbank Hill, as well as near West Loups’s.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Goldsborough and Butter Stone.

Goldsborough

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Goldsborough is a peak.

Butter Stone

Stone

Photo: Hugh Mortimer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Butter Stone is situated 2½ miles east of Howbeck Head.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hury and Hunderthwaite.

Hury is a village in Baldersdale, in the Pennines of England. It is located in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire. Along with the rest of the former Startforth Rural District it has been treated as part of County Durham for administrative and ceremonial purposes since 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972. Hury is situated 1½ miles north of Howbeck Head.

Hunderthwaite

Hamlet

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

Hunderthwaite is a village and civil parish in Teesdale, in the Pennines of England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 114. Hunderthwaite is situated 2½ miles northeast of Howbeck Head.

Bowes

Village

Photo: Darren Haddock, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bowes is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. Located in the Pennine hills, it is situated close to Barnard Castle. It is built around the medieval Bowes Castle. In 2021 the parish had a population of 442. Bowes is situated 3 miles southeast of Howbeck Head.

Howbeck Head

Type: Locality
Location: Cotherstone, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.5511° or 54° 33′ 4″ north

Longitude

-2.05895° or 2° 3′ 32″ west

Open location code

9C6VHW2R+CC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5232817351

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Localities in the Area

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