High Cascades car park

High Cascades car park is a parking area in Matterdale, Westmorland and Furness, England. High Cascades car park is situated near the peak Bracken How, as well as near the waterfall High Force.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Aira Force and Gowbarrow Fell.

Aira Force

Waterfall

Photo: Ballantyne108, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Aira Force is a waterfall in the English Lake District, in the civil parish of Matterdale and the county of Cumbria. The site of the waterfall is owned by the National Trust. Aira Force is situated 1,900 feet southeast of High Cascades car park.

Gowbarrow Fell

Peak

Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gowbarrow Fell is a low fell in the English Lake District. It is an outlier of the Eastern Fells, standing to the north of Ullswater, bounded on one side by Aira Beck with its waterfall Aira Force.

Matterdale Church

Church

Photo: David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Matterdale Church is situated 1 mile north of High Cascades car park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ulcat Row and Glenridding.

Ulcat Row

Hamlet

Photo: Bob Jenkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ulcat Row is a village in the civil parish of Matterdale, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. In the 2011 census, the parish had 483 residents, roughly an 8% decrease from 526 residents in 2001.

Glenridding

Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Martindale

Hamlet

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Martindale is a valley, village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, England, situated within the Lake District National Park between the lakes of Ullswater and Haweswater. Martindale is situated 2½ miles southeast of High Cascades car park.

High Cascades car park

Type: Parking area
Category: transport
Location: Matterdale, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.58136° or 54° 34′ 53″ north

Longitude

-2.93483° or 2° 56′ 5″ west

Parking

surface

Operator

National Trust

Open location code

9C6VH3J8+G3

OpenStreetMap ID

way 121604658

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=parking

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: High Cascades and Bracken How.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Parkgate Farm and Fauldriggs.

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