Dalehead

Dalehead is a locality in Martindale, Westmorland and Furness, England. Dalehead is situated nearby to the locality Straits of Riggindale, as well as near Sale Pot.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Knott and Rampsgill Head.

The Knott

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Knott is a fell in the English Lake District, standing above Hayeswater in the Far Eastern Fells. It is an outlier of Rampsgill Head, being the high point of the ridge from there to Rest Dodd.

Rampsgill Head is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the west of Haweswater Reservoir in the Far Eastern Fells. It forms the focal point of three ridges which fan out north-east, north-west and south.

Kidsty Pike

Peak

Photo: Kreuzschnabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kidsty Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the west of Haweswater Reservoir. It is a subsidiary top of Rampsgill Head, but has long achieved the status of a separate fell, thanks to its classic peaked profile.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hartsop and Mardale.

Hartsop

Hamlet

Photo: Ericoides, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hartsop is a small village in the English Lake District. It lies in the Patterdale valley, near Brothers Water, Hayeswater and Kirkstone Pass. It consists of 17th-century grey stone cottages, like so many of its neighbours. Hartsop is situated 2 miles west of Dalehead.

Mardale

Locality

Mardale is a glacial valley in the Lake District, in northern England. The valley used to have a hamlet at its head, called Mardale Green, but this village was submerged in the late 1930s when the water level of the valley's lake, Haweswater, was raised to form Haweswater Reservoir by Manchester Corporation. Mardale is situated 2 miles east of Dalehead.

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 3½ miles northwest of Dalehead.

Dalehead

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

54.50551° or 54° 30′ 20″ north

Longitude

-2.86545° or 2° 51′ 56″ west

Open location code

9C6VG44M+6R

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7101087576

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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