Bessy Wood
Bessy Wood is a forest in Kirkby Ireleth, Westmorland and Furness, England. Bessy Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Beanthwaite, as well as near the locality Stone Rings.Places of Interest
Highlights include Blawith Knott and Kirkby Slate Quarries.
Blawith Knott
Peak
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blawith Knott is a hill in the south of the English Lake District, near Woodland, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
Kirkby Slate Quarries
Quarry
Kirkby Slate Quarries, formally known as Burlington Slate Quarries, are located near Kirkby-in-Furness in Cumbria, England. The quarries have produced a characteristic blue-grey slate for over 450 years, with large-scale production starting in the early 19th…
Kirkby-in-Furness railway station
Railway station
Photo: Carl Bendelow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkby-in-Furness is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. The station, situated 9+1⁄4 miles north of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the village of Kirkby-in-Furness in Cumbria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Broughton-in-Furness and Kirkby-in-Furness.
Broughton-in-Furness
Town
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broughton in Furness is a market town in the civil parish of Broughton West in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It had a population of 529 at the 2011 Census.
Kirkby-in-Furness
Village
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Kirkby-in-Furness, generally referred to simply as Kirkby locally, is a village that is the major part of the parish of Kirkby Ireleth in the Furness district of Cumbria, England.
Foxfield
Village
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Foxfield is a village on the west coast of Cumbria, England, in the Furness district that was part of Lancashire from 1182 to 1974. It lies on the Duddon Estuary, just outside the Lake District National Park, around ten miles to the north-east of Barrow-in-Furness and one mile out of Broughton-in-Furness.
Bessy Wood
Latitude
54.2601° or 54° 15′ 37″ northLongitude
-3.152° or 3° 9′ 7″ westOpen location code
9C6R7R6X+36OpenStreetMap ID
way 107732358OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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