Nick Head

Nick Head is a locality in Patterdale, Westmorland and Furness, England. Nick Head is situated nearby to the locality Bleabank Side, as well as near Lucy’s Tongue.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sheffield Pike and Greenside Mine.

Sheffield Pike

Peak

Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sheffield Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, a prominent intermediate top on one of the eastern ridges of Stybarrow Dodd. It separates and stands high above the Glencoyne and Glenridding valleys, on the eastern side of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells and it looks down onto Ullswater.

Greenside Mine

Scenic viewpoint

Photo: Silence-is-infinite, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Greenside Mine was a successful lead mine in the Lake District of England. Between 1825 and 1961 the mine produced 156,000 long tons of lead and 1,600,000 ounces of silver, from around 2 million tons of ore.

Hart Side

Peak

Photo: Silence-is-infinite, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hart Side is a subsidiary top on one of the east ridges of Stybarrow Dodd, which is a mountain in the English Lake District, west of Ullswater on the main Helvellyn ridge in the Eastern Fells.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenridding and Patterdale.

Glenridding

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Glenridding is a village at the southern end of Ullswater, in the English Lake District. The village is popular with mountain walkers who can scale England's third-highest mountain, Helvellyn, and many other challenging peaks from there.

Patterdale

Village

Photo: Ericoides, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Patterdale is a small village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is in the eastern part of the Lake District, and the name is also used for the long valley in which the village sits, also called the Ullswater Valley. Patterdale is situated 2½ miles southeast of Nick Head.

Legburthwaite

Village

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Legburthwaite is a village in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria. It is located on the A591 road and the B5322 road. Legburthwaite has a disused place of worship and formerly, a youth hostel. It is just north of Thirlmere. Legburthwaite is situated 3 miles west of Nick Head.

Nick Head

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

54.55573° or 54° 33′ 21″ north

Longitude

-2.98686° or 2° 59′ 13″ west

Open location code

9C6VH247+77

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5375710067

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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